Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.

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

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

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

A genuinely happy person is one who has rendered others happy.

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

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Success is the process itself.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

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

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

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