Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Some things are best mended by a break.

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

It’s the artists who do the dreaming for society.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.