Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

The future is plump with promise.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy.

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.