The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

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

Don't allow your rituals to become ruts.

I felt it shelter to speak to you.

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

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

If it is true for you, it is true for someone else, and you are no longer alone.

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

It's more difficult to be simple, and it's easier to be more complicated.

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.