it's best to accept life as it really is and not as I imagined it to be

Success does not come from having one's work recognized by others. It is the fruit of the seed that you lovingly planted.

No one can go back, but everyone can go forward.

Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.

All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild.

A Warrior knows when a battle is worth fighting.