The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

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

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

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

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.