A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

We are all of us obliged... to nurse a few little follies in ourselves.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

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

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

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

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

The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

I'm doing many different things to prepare for the inevitable failure of one of them.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world.