Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

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

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

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

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

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

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