Don't feel bad for making decisions that upset other people. you're not responsible for their happiness, you're responsible for yours.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.

People are just as wonderful as sunsets if you let them be. When I look at a sunset, I dont find myself saying, 'Soften the orange a bit on the right hand corner.' I dont try to control a sunset. I watch with awe as it unfolds.

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit