Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want

Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

To preserve the past is to save the future...

The more importance we place on avoiding unpleasant feelings in life, the more our life tends to go downhill.

The great thing about Ayurveda is that its treatments always yield side benefits, not side effects.

No one had ever told me that whites were supposed to sing one kind of music and blacks another - I sang what I liked in the only voice I had.

We're all responsible for creating a polio-free world while we still can.

Every chess game is like taking a five-hour final exam.

I worked as hard as I could. I was always the first one on the ice, and the last one off.

Age makes all things greater after their death; a name comes to the tongue easier from the grave.

In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.

I did not fail two thousand times. I merely found two thousand ways not to make a lightbulb.