Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Isolation is a dream killer.

A plastic surgeon should never tell anybody to age gracefully. Rather his motto should be to make people age youthfully.

He regretted nothing. Not the way she’d felt in his arms and not the way he’d felt in hers.

String theory is an attempt at a deeper description of nature by thinking of an elementary particle not as a little point but as a little loop of vibrating string.

A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.

God breaks the heart again and again and again until it stays open.

This day and your life are God's gift to you - so give thanks and be joyful always.

Today's burdens can strengthen you for tomorrow.

Things she knew now, that she hadn't known two hours ago: Park was covered with skin. Everywhere.

NATO's got a vital role to play. It's very important that we protect NATO.

But whate'er I am, nor I nor any man that but man is, With nothing shall be pleased 'til he be eased With being nothing.