We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.