What counts is not the things that happen, but what we do with them.

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

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.