Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

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

April, dressed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

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

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

The quality of your life depends quite a bit on the quality of attention you project out onto the world.