Happiness depends on being free, and freedom depends on being courageous.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

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

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

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