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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

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

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

Love comes… when you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

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

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