Don’t compromise yourself. You’re all you’ve got.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

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

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

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

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.