Freedom is something that dies unless it’s used.

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

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.