More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.

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

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

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

Some things are best mended by a break.

Everything that truly makes us happy is quite simple: love, sex, and food!

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

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

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

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.