Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

I will either find a way, or make one.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

It is not enough to know your craft — you have to have feeling.

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

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

If you wake up and the day feels broken, just lean into the crack.