The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Art is a spiritual function of man, which aims at freeing him from life's chaos.

Some people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress.

The struggle, like life itself, should be joyful.

Love is really... a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth.

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.