It always seems impossible until it's done.

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

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

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

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

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

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.