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

All that you’ve loved is all you own.

In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.

Time is everything; time is quality.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

In a time of destruction, create something.

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves.

It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

You cannot save people, you can only love them.

True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

Patience is also a form of action.