The universe only makes sense when we have someone to share our feelings with.

The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.

Suffering comes from desire, not from pain.

What do you want? You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring. You can't want only to love, because that's impossible. What do you want? You want to justify your life, to live it as intensely as possible. That is at once a trap and a source of ecstasy. Try to be alert to that danger and experience the joy and the adventure of being that woman who is beyond the image reflected in the mirror.

The search for happiness is purely personal and not a model we can give to others.

The music could even penetrate his remote world, more distant than the moon itself; it could even perform miracles.

The warrior knows that the most important words in all languages are the small words. Yes. Love. God. They are words that are easy enough to say and which fill vast empty spaces.