If they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

If you need something from somebody, always give that person a way to hand it to you.

I learned that you have to push away the demand of people's expectations by believing in your instincts.

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.