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

It's not your job to be likable. It's your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway.

All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.

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

You live out the confusions until they become clear.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.