Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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

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

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

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

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

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