My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.

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

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

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

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

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

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.