The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

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

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

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

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

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

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