In the depths of Winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

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

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

The only lasting truth is change.

I believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been.

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it.

If you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out.

Your own path you make with every step you take. That's why it's your path.

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