Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

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

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

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

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

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

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.