When you come out of the storm you won’t be the same person who walked in.

Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas.

Genius is 1 percent inspiration, 99 percent perspiration.

Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it.

Genius is often only the power of making continuous efforts.

Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another!

The best way to lift one's self up is to help someone else.

The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.

Your mind will take the shape of what you frequently hold in thought.

There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

You can’t laugh and be afraid at the same time — of anything.