If one has no sense of humor, one is in trouble.

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

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

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

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

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

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

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