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

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

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

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.