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

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

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

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

The only lasting truth is change.

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

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

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!

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.