The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

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

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

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

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

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

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.