Hope springs eternal in the human breast.

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

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

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

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

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

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

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

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

At the end of the day, you are enough exactly as you are.