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

Learning never exhausts the mind.

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

It isn't just talent. You have to have something else. You have to have a kind of nerve.

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

Live for each second without hesitation.

There is nothing stronger than a broken woman who has rebuilt herself.

Some things are best mended by a break.

The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.

The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

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

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.