“Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.”

That which we persist in doing becomes easier to do, not that the nature of the thing has changed but that our power to do has increased.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.

What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.

People do not seem to realise that their opinion of the world is also a confession of their character.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Life is a series of surprises and would not be worth taking or keeping if it were not.

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.

Be silly. Be honest. Be kind.

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, and the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer.

It is always possible to do a thing better the second time.

I don’t think I took the time to notice how being a woman in my position is really a gift. I want to make sure I utilize all that power.

I am only an average man, but by George, I work harder at it than the average man.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

It is in my nature to be confident, to be aggressive.

I think I have an inner confidence that my tastes are pretty simple, that what I find funny finds a wide audience.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.