You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.
Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become.
Success is the product of daily habits—not once-in-a-lifetime transformations.
It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.
I am going to outlive myself. Eat, sleep, sleep, eat. Exist slowly, softly, like these trees, like a puddle of water, like the red bench in the streetcar.
I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't.
I looked up at the mass of signs and stars in the night sky and laid myself open for the first time to the benign indifference of the world.