After the burning the soil is richer, and new things can grow. People are like that, too.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

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

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

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

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

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

You make your life meaningful by applying meaning to it.

April, dressed in all his trim, hath put a spirit of youth in everything.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.