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

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

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

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

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

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

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.