We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.