Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

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

It's not your job to be likable. It's your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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

'Tis never too late to be wise.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

The world belongs to the enthusiast who keeps cool.

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

Walls turned sideways are bridges.