You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep spring from coming.

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

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

I am all the things I have ever loved.

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.

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

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

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress.