The first time you do something only happens once.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

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

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

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

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

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

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

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