Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

I would rather walk with a friend in the dark than walk alone in the light.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Admire as much as you can, most people don't admire enough.

Some things are best mended by a break.

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

You must not try to make love definite. It is the divine accident of life.

I still believe, in spite of everything, that people are truly good at heart.