Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

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

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

The excursion is the same when you go looking for your sorrow as when you go looking for your joy.

What you think about day and night forms your character and personality.

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.