Everything I’ve ever done that’s valuable is something I was terrified to try.

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

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.

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

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.