What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.