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

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

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

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

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

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

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

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

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

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

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!