Optimism is a happiness magnet.

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Some things are best mended by a break.

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

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

Ultimately a genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

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

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.