The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

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

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

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

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

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

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