You don't meet the people you love, you recognize them.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

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

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

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

If you look for perfection, you will never be satisfied.

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

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

Dismiss whatever insults your own soul.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

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