If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

Act as if someone just said there’s no reason to be afraid.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

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

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

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

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.