I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.”

It's not that you have to hate people to survive in this world. You just have to love yourself more.

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the ax.

The sea is all-embracing and terrible.

Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead; if you lose, you can guide.