Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

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.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

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

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

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.