Happiness is a simple, frugal heart.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

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

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

Love comes… when you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

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

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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