Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone, it has to be made, like bread.

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

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

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