Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

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

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

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

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.