The best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

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

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

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

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

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

Change — real change — comes from the inside out.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

There’s not a word yet for old friends who’ve just met.