We won't be distracted by comparison if we're captivated with purpose.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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

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

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

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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

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

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