Creativity, not normality, has become the paradigm of mental health.

But self-abasement is just inverted egoism. Anyone who acts with genuine humility will be as far from humiliation as from arrogance.

Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.

Love softens everything except our sense of integrity.

It is better to do your own duty badly than to perfectly do an others; when you do your duty, you are naturally free from sin.

What people love about life is its miraculous beauty; what they hate about death is the loss and decay around it. Yet losing is not losing, and decay turns into beauty, as beauty turns back into decay. We are breathed in, breathed out. Therefore all you need is to understand the one breath that makes up the world.

What we are tempted to call a disaster is sometimes the first, painful stage of a blessing.