Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure.

It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Once you realize that you can do something, it would be difficult to live with yourself if you didn’t do it.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

I wish I could show you when you are lonely or in darkness the astonishing light of your own being.

It is so easy to give, so exquisitely rewarding.

Love is a tenacious adventure.

No idea is final.

What counts is not the things that happen, but what we do with them.

We are all afraid to say too much, to feel too deeply, to let people know what they mean to us.

My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.