Pain nourishes courage. You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

Maybe who we are isn't so much about what we do, but rather what we're capable of when we least expect it.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Reach out your hand if your cup be empty, if your cup is full may it be again.

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

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon. In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.

Out of the wreck I rise.

The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.

The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.