"The ocean of adversity cannot drown the spirit that resolves to stay afloat. Let this simple maxim guide your daily deeds — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"The pursuit of excellence requires knowing that the legacy we leave is written in the hearts of others."

"Art is the soul's attempt to give enduring form to the formless. This remains the cornerstone of personal mastery."

"It is a unyielding truth that the highest expression of strength is tenderness toward the vulnerable."

"It is a enduring truth that courage is not the absence of trembling, but the decision to step forward regardless."

"I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her."

"If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young."

"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."