You can only understand people if you feel them in yourself.

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

If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

You are what you love, not what loves you.

Out of the wreck I rise.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.

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

When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.

Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius.

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