The reward for conformity is that everyone likes you but yourself.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

If there's love in a house, it's a palace for sure.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

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

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Live for each second without hesitation.