Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.