You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

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

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.

Tolerance, like any aspect of peace, is forever a work in progress.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

I learned that you have to push away the demand of people's expectations by believing in your instincts.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.