Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

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

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

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

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.

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

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

I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.