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.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

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

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

The only lasting truth is change.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

All experience is great providing you live through it.