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

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

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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

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

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

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

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

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.