In a dark time, the eye begins to see.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love.

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

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

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

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

April, dressed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

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