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

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

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

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

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

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

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