Sometimes you simply needed someone kind to sit with you while you dealt with things.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

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

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

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

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.