Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been.

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

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

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

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

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

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

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

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Some things are best mended by a break.