If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

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

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

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

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

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

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

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.