Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

The choice to love is the choice to connect — to find ourselves in the other.

To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.

Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

The man of faith, of energy, of warmth… steps in and does something.

Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses, and disappointments.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life are made up of light and shade.