Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

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

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

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

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

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

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

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

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.