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

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

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

If there's love in a house, it's a palace for sure.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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