The world is full of people who have stopped listening to themselves.

We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.

Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you are the answer.

If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's.

I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

Find a place inside where there's joy, and the joy will burn out the pain.

Life is but a mask worn on the face of death. And is death, then, but another mask? 'How many can say,' asks the Aztec poet, 'that there is, or is not, a truth beyond?'

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Life is not a problem to be solved but a mystery to be lived. Follow the path that is no path, follow your bliss.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

As regards moral courage, then, it is not so much that the public schools support it feebly, as that they suppress it firmly.

If it makes you happy, then you succeeded already.

It should never be your job to pick up the pieces of a broken man or to housebreak one. There are far better things you can do with your time.

Other people imagined demons and monsters under the bed. Robert had actually seen them.

You go up for hundreds, thousands of roles, and you get told no, no, no, so many times.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

Each book is a different staging post on the writer's journey, and each book stands by itself, regardless of the writer's relationship to it.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time of sorrow.

Heaven never helps the man who will not help himself