Everybody who is honest is interesting.

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

Everything in nature invites us constantly to be what we are.

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

The only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough.

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

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

All mistakes teach us something, so there are, in reality, no mistakes.

There’s nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.