A friend is, as it were, a second self.

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

Words empowered by justice can never be silenced.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

The heart is not like a box that gets filled up; it expands in size the more you love.

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

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Success is the process itself.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

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