From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

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

There will always be someone who can't see your worth. Don't let it be you.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

I found my place when I stopped looking for it.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

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

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

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