Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

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

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

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

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

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

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

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