Walls turned sideways are bridges.

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.

My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

When someone tells me “no,” it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

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

Being successful doesn't mean anything in and of itself. It just means that you're successful.

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

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.

Exuberance is beauty.