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

You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got?

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.

Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.