Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

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

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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

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

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

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.