Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time.

There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.