The beauty is that through disappointment you can gain clarity, and with clarity comes conviction and true originality.

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.

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

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.