What you see is from outside yourself, and may come, or not, but is beyond your control. But your fear is yours, and yours alone, like your voice, or your fingers, or your memory, and therefore yours to control. If you feel powerless over your fear, you have not yet admitted that it is yours, to do with as you will.

The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.

One of the earliest lessons I learned was not to read my reviews. Weigh them.

Of all things we mortals are called upon to do, the most difficult is forgiveness; in order to truly do it, you will probably have to behave as if you already have forgiven for quite a while before you have actually done so.

The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.

Remain true to yourself, child. If you know your own heart, you will always have one friend who does not lie.

The visible world was only an imperfect reflection of the Ideal, which the Philosopher sought to transcend.