No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

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

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

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

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.