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

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

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

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

The only tired I was, was tired of giving in.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

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

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Success is the process itself.

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