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

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

If there's love in a house, it's a palace for sure.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

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