No wise man ever wished to be younger.

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

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

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

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

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

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.