All mistakes teach us something, so there are, in reality, no mistakes.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

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

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

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

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

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Some things are best mended by a break.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.