Yield not to misfortunes, but advance all the more boldly against them.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

The simple act of paying attention can take you a long way.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

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

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

April, dressed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.