I have stood on a mountain of no's for one yes.

Judge each day not by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

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

Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

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.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.