What is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Exuberance is beauty.

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

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

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

The only thing we can do is honestly learn from our falls.

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

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

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

That's the very reason they put rubbers on the end of pencils... because people make mistakes.

The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.