I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

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

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

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.