Don’t be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is in hand.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

You know the greatest thing is passion, without it what have you got?

A friend is, as it were, a second self.

Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.

When love beckons to you, follow him, though his ways are hard and steep.

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Don't move the way fear makes you move.

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

You exist only in what you do.

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Tenderness is the most modest form of love.