If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

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

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

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

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