The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.