Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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