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

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

Within you there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

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

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.