Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively.

To most teenagers, life is a strange uncharted land filled with a mixture of new joys, intensely felt, and painful confusions for which they know no anodyne.

All the water in the world cannot drown you unless it gets inside of you.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn't have the power to say yes.

Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes.

All of life is a constant education.

Do not be afraid of mistakes, provided you do not make the same one twice.