When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.

The first time you do something only happens once.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

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

Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person that you always should have been.

Exuberance is beauty.

Patience is also a form of action.

Change — real change — comes from the inside out.

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

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

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.