Be wise; soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise.

To doubt is worse than to have lost; And to despair is but to antedate those miseries that must fall on us.

A willing mind makes a hard journey easy.

Malice scorned, puts out itself; but argued, give a kind of credit to a false accusation.

True dignity is never gained by place, and never lost when honors are withdrawn.

It is true fortitude to stand firm against All shocks of fate, when cowards faint and die In fear to suffer more calamity.

How sweetly sounds the voice of a good woman! It is so seldom heard that, when it speaks,it ravishes all senses.

Giants in Their promises, but those obtained, weak pigmies In their performance.

He is not valiant that dares lie; but he that boldly bears calamity.

Thou art figured blind, and yet we borrow our best sight from thee.

We have not an hour of life in which our pleasures relish not some pain, our sours, some sweetness.

It's about the quality of the worry, " I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.

Stop comparing yourself to others. Compare yourself to your perfect self version and start develop and progress step by step to get closer to your perfect version.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

Everyone in my family is an artist. Both my parents are painters and my mom's an opera singer. I was never shown any other way to process life.

I would just as likely be doing soccer practice as filming commercials.

I've never been to Harvard, I've never been to college, so I don't know what dorm life is like.

I don’t think that [the war in Iraq] damaged our reputation around the world.

It is never too late to learn.

Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.

Play because it's fun, and not to become a pro. If your goal is to become pro, the best way to realize that is by loving what you do.