The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

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

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.