The secret of life is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

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

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

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

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing.