Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

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

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

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

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

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.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

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