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

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.