You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time — of anything.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

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

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.