The ability to be alone is the ability to love. It may look paradoxical to you, but it's not. It is an existential truth: only those who can be alone are able to love, to share, to go into the deepest core of another human being—without possessing the other, without becoming dependent on the other, without reducing the other to a thing, and without becoming addicted to the other.

如果行善不是发自内心，那就不会长久。比如被捐款、被做义工等等，都是一锤子买卖，因为不是他自愿的。

信任是在果园里赢得的，而不是在会议室。

真正的进步发生在我们停止争论谁是对的，而开始合作于有效的事情上。

阅读不是眼睛的运动，而是大脑的运动。

艺术家消失得越多，他的作品就出现得越多。