The body grows slowly and steadily but the soul grows by leaps and bounds.

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

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

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

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

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

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

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