No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

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

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

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

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