Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

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

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

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

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

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

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

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

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.