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

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

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in.

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

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

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.