Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

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

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

If there's love in a house, it's a palace for sure.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

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

The only lasting truth is change.

Don’t be afraid to be confused. Try to remain permanently confused. Anything is possible.

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.