Living with regrets is like driving a car that only moves in reverse.

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

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

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

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.