It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Be yourself, let you come through.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Above all things, respect yourself.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

I am the captain of my soul.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.