If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

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

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

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

He who has peace of mind disturbs neither himself nor another.