Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier.

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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

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

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

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

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

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