Some people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

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

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

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

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

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

'Tis never too late to be wise.

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

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

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

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