Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

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

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

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

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.