The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

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

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

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

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

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

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