Character. Intelligence. Strength. Style. That makes beauty.

The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Patience and tenacity of purpose are worth more than twice their weight of cleverness.

In times of strife, we have our imagination, we have our creative impulse.

A good friend is a connection to life — a tie to the past, a road to the future.

Find your style and stick to it.

Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

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

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.