It is a duty to take this risk, to love and feel without defense or reserve.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

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

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

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

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

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