If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it’s worth considering.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship.

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.

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

In quietness the soul expands.

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

All mistakes teach us something, so there are, in reality, no mistakes.

The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.

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