You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

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

Success is the process itself.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

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