It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it.

I never thought of achievement. I just did what came along for me to do - the thing that gave me the most pleasure.

The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. . . . You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, “I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.