After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too.

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

Some things are best mended by a break.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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

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