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

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

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

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

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

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