We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

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

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

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

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

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

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

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.