We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.