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

Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been.

I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going, but I'm on my way.

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

I believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

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

The best advice I ever got when I was starting out: Never give up. And I never did.

We all accept too easily that life has to be hard and forget to make sure we have the most fun we can.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

Stop making excuses; you're the only one stopping you.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.

You don't meet the people you love, you recognize them.