We know what we are, but know not what we may be.

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

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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

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

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.