Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

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

The world is like a Mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

Art is a language which anneals individuals to each other through experiences that are uniquely human.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

All experience is great providing you live through it.

April, dressed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.