It takes a long time to learn how to do something simple.
Life said to me, Be happy. Don't let me down.
Wisdom is knowing when you have enough.
Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.
We reach the end of our lives long before we reach the end of ourselves.
The problem is not that we can't answer the great questions, but that we ask them in the first place.
The spiritual life to me has always meant just one thing: emotion. Emotion is the poetry of life.
The woods are full of poison berries but you don't have to eat them.
Those who lack experience always have a lot of ideas.
The profoundest thing writing teaches us is how much we contradict ourselves.
All the great stories are about obsession and people who are obsessed.
No ideology or psychological theory can possibly do justice to the full range of human experience.
Music- a country one can inhabit only in music.
It's a strange idea people have that thinking makes one intelligent.
The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.
Too much success spoils success.
You have to let the balloon go if you want to see it fly.
The things that happen in the night are hidden even from the night.
We usually fail at the things most important to us, precisely because they are so important to us.
Love hurts because we think that's what love is.