Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

That’s the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

The ultimate luxury in life remains nature.

Mind is a flexible mirror, adjust it, to see a better world.

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

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it.

Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.

I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.