Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

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

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.