It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

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

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

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

Success is the process itself.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

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

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.