Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it.

Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the course of hours.

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.