Don’t try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you.

Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been.

There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Endure, and keep yourselves for days of happiness.

Whatever you decide to look for you will find, whatever you beckon will eventually beckon you.

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.

One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy.

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

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

We all get where we’re going by circuitous journeys, and some of the setbacks are warranted.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

Compassion is one of the purest springs of love.