We're each of us alone, to be sure. What can you do but hold your hand out in the dark?

Love is space and time made perceptible to the heart.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

The chief prevention against getting old is to remain astonished.

You are what you love, not what loves you.

Genius, like humanity, rusts for want of use.

There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.

Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

My only advice is to stay aware, listen carefully, and yell for help if you need it.

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.