You took the best, so why not take the rest?

Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.

Experience, which destroys innocence, also leads one back to it.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

People can't, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents. Life gives these and also takes them away and the great difficulty is to say Yes to life.

Freedom lurked around us and I understood, at last, that he could help us be free if we would listen, that he would never be free until we did.

Most people... find a disorientating mismatch between the long-term nature of their liabilities and the increasingly short-term nature of their assets.