Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

I am all the things I have ever loved.

It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.

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

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

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

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

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

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.