Be kind once a day — even if it's just in your mind.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

Ultimately, art is trying to see things that other people don't see.

I would tell my younger self, just be yourself — that who you are is good enough.

You have to have confidence in your vision or else no one else will trust in it.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

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

You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time — of anything.

In three words, I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped.

The way to make people trustworthy is to trust them.