Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves.

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.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

Some things are best mended by a break.

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

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage.

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

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