Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

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

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

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

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.