Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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

All experience is great providing you live through it.

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

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

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

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

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.