In times of strife, we have our imagination, we have our creative impulse.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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

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

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.