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

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

Some things are best mended by a break.

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

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

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

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.