One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

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

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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

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

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

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Change — real change — comes from the inside out.

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

Love is really... a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.