Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

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

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

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

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

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

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

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

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.