The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

Success is the process itself.

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

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

Some things are best mended by a break.

People living deeply have no fear of death.