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

If you want to look good in front of thousands, you have to outwork thousands in front of nobody.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

Resilience — the ability to brush off pain.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its troubles, but it empties it of its strength.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Run to the rescue with love and peace will follow.

The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention… To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.