The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

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

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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

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

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

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

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.