Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves.

One shouldn't just hope to be treated well: one must insist on it.

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

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

Enthusiasm is the great hill-climber.

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

From our first babblings to our last word, we make but one statement, and that is our life.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

It isn't a sadness, but a joy, that we don't do the same things for the length of our lives.

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

Joy is not in things, it is in us.

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.