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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

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

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