The bigger the mess, the greater the progress.

“Everyone has talent. What's rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.”

“I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”

"If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins."

"In order to be happy oneself it is necessary to make at least one other person happy."

“Adversity is like a strong wind. I don’t mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be.”

“No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.”

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”

“Power is like being a lady... if you have to tell people you are, you aren't.”

“Salvation comes at a price.”

"Life is about choices. Some we regret, some we're proud of. We are what we chose to be."

"The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence."

"Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."

“I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.”

“Luck is a very thin wire between survival and disaster, and not many people can keep their balance on it.”

“I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it’s for – or against.”

“Nothing is permanent in this wicked world— not even our troubles.”

“The past is never where you think you left it.”