There is only one proof of ability — action.

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

In quietness the soul expands.

You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got?

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.