Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again.

The success of love is in the loving—it is not in the result of loving.

Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Very few people really see things unless theyve had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them too. But the looking is primary, the focus.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves — there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.