Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

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

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

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

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

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.