Man is indestructible because of his simple will to freedom.

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

You can't lead the people if you don't love the people. You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Some things are best mended by a break.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

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