All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public — talent in privacy.

Find your style and stick to it.

Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

What counts is not the things that happen, but what we do with them.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

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

Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

The only thing we can do is honestly learn from our falls.

I believe that the privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.

There are times when dreams sustain us more than facts.