It is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come.

The choice to love is the choice to connect — to find ourselves in the other.

There are things that are not sayable. That's why we have art.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature.

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

That's the very reason they put rubbers on the end of pencils... because people make mistakes.

Vulnerability is important. You can’t let your skin get too thick.

The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough.

You don't meet the people you love, you recognize them.

Exuberance is beauty.