"To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to be unfaithful to one's own task."
"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."
"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time."
"The beginning of love is the will to let those we love be perfectly themselves, the resolution not to twist them to fit our own image."
"Happiness is not something that comes ready-made. It comes from your own actions."