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

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

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

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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

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