When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

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

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.

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

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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

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