My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

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

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

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

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

All experience is great providing you live through it.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

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