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

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

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

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

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

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.