If there’s something I can’t do but want to, I won’t relax until I’m able to do it.

Most young people were getting jobs in big companies, becoming company men. I wanted to be individual.

The years nineteen and twenty are a crucial stage in the maturation of character, and if you allow yourself to become warped when you're that age, it will cause you pain when you're older.

No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.

Never let the darkness or negativity outside affect your inner self. Just wait until morning comes and the bright light will drown out the darkness.

It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.

It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.