It's not your job to be likable. It's your job to be yourself. Someone will like you anyway.

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

If you follow the natural intentions, you get the most success out of life.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

The truth is the light and light is the truth.

Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake.

Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.

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

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

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.

Exuberance is beauty.