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

Character. Intelligence. Strength. Style. That makes beauty.

Vulnerability is like a connector... it connects you to the rest of the world.

The struggle, like life itself, should be joyful.

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

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

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

Some people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Imagination is the secret and marrow of civilization.