A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing.
Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Love is the absence of judgment.
All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
There’s nowhere you can be that isn’t where you’re meant to be...
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
To define is to limit.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Creativity takes courage.
Books are the mirrors of the soul.
How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.
Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.
But how could you live and have no story to tell?
No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of freedom: having the most important thing in the world without owning it.
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant.