The highest appreciation is not to utter words but to live by them.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

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

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

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

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

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.