We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

Injustice makes the rules, and courage breaks them.

In all things it is better to hope than to despair.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

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

There is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

I am all the things I have ever loved.

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.

We are all born worthy. Worthy of love, worthy of success.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

My life is full of mistakes. They’re like pebbles that make a good road.