Opportunities to find deeper powers within ourselves come when life seems most challenging.

Forgiveness … is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

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

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

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

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.

Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.