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

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

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

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

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

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.