Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

There is no deeper desire than the desire of being revealed.

In most things success depends on knowing how long it takes to succeed.

The world only exists in your eyes... You can make it as big or as small as you want.

Vulnerability is important. You can’t let your skin get too thick.

There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

To have courage for whatever comes in life — everything lies in that.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

The choice to love is the choice to connect — to find ourselves in the other.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.