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

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

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

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

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

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

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

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