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

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

These are the times in life — when nothing happens — but in quietness the soul expands.

Time is everything; time is quality.

The art of life is not controlling what happens to us, but using what happens to us.

Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help.

Always remember: Silence and smile are two very powerful tools.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.

Just because things hadn't gone the way I had planned didn't necessarily mean they had gone wrong.

Words are the clothing of our thoughts.