It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.

Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.

No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.

Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.

Being sincere, dedicated and honest is the key. People of integrity triumph in the end.

You'll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind.

I eyed her like a thirsty traveler in the desert looks at a pail of water.

Having studied at the Sorbonne, I spent my 21st birthday in Paris and celebrated with one of my professors in a cafe outside of Notre Dame.

Something my mum taught me years and years and years ago, is life's just too short to carry around a great bucket-load of anger and resentment and bitterness and hatreds and all that sort of stuff.

The superior man thinks always of virtue; the common man thinks of comfort.

A talkative person runs himself upon great inconvenience by blabbing out his own and others' secrets.

To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.

Empty your birdcage, empty your aquarium! To love is to give freedom; to love is to refuse the prisons!

My mother always told me that inaction is not an option. And neither is going it alone.

[My art is] capable of liberating man from the tyranny of the 'practical, rational world.'