Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.

Love... is the honoring of others in a way that grants them the grace of their own autonomy.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.

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

People living deeply have no fear of death.

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

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.