Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Success is the process itself.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

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

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.