What good is warmth without cold to give it sweetness?

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

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Some things are best mended by a break.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

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