I learned that you have to push away the demand of people's expectations by believing in your instincts.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.