It’s your road and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you.

Only from the heart can you touch the sky.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

Time wounds all heels.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin, without even opening them.

I write with experiences in mind, but I don't write about them, I write out of them.

If you're happy, don't worry you'll get over it.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

Love make us poets, and the approach of death should make us philosophers.

You cannot truly listen to anyone and do anything else at the same time.

Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference.

We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough?

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

Don't criticize what you can't understand.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.