Take forgiveness slowly. Don't blame yourself for being slow. Peace will come.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

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

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

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