Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.

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

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

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

All experience is great providing you live through it.

Pretend you’re more obsessed with this moment and a little bit less with the way it ends.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

Falsehood is so easy, truth so difficult.

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

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

Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.