The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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

April, dressed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.