We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

Life isn’t worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Let us, then, be up and doing, with a heart for any fate.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.

Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.

If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astonish ourselves.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live.

Love the life you live. Live the life you love.

Everyone’s a star and deserves the right to twinkle.

Stay hungry. Stay foolish.

It’s raining in my heart like it’s raining in the city. What is this sadness that pierces my heart?

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; If we did not sometimes taste the adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage.

Don’t wait. The time will never be just right.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds. It dies of weariness, of withering, of tarnishing.