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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Fashion goes in only one direction — forward — and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help.

Write relentlessly, until you find your voice. Then, use it.

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Love is really... a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth.

Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens.

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

Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway of life itself.