If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

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.

Some things are best mended by a break.