Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

You shape your own destiny.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.