A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

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

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.