A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

I learned that you have to push away the demand of people's expectations by believing in your instincts.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

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

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.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

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