The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Some things are best mended by a break.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

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

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!