You are what you love, not what loves you.

Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.

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

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.

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

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

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

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

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

The greatest reward of righteousness is peace of mind.

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

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