If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

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

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

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

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.