Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

What you think about day and night forms your character and personality.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.