A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.