Do not pray for an easy life; pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

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

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

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

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

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

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Love is really... a recognition of another person’s integrity and truth.

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.