Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

All experience is great providing you live through it.