Adversity isn't set against you to fail; adversity is a way to build your character so that you can succeed over and over again through perseverance.

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that ones life has meaning, that one is needed in this world

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded upon a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older

Your worth is not determined by external achievements; it is inherent in your very being. You are enough.

For I have swallowed two halves of a whole sky.

In philosophy if you aren't moving at a snail's pace you aren't moving at all.

“It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.”