A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

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

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

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

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