All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

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

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

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

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

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

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

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

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

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