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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

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

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

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

Some things are best mended by a break.

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

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.

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