What is much harder to handle is the sense that you have to live up to the mark someone else has set for you. The grades become too important, the competition too frantic, the fear of disappointing those who believe in you turns into an overwhelming nightmare.

We believe what we want to believe, what we like to believe, what suits our prejudices and fuels our passions.

The time to relax is when you don't have time for it.

If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?

The deepest and rarest kind of courage has nothing to do with feats or obstacles in the outside world; and, indeed, has nothing to do with the outside world - it is the courage to be who you are.

Enemies, as well as lovers, come to resemble each other over a period of time.

Many people know how to work hard; many others know how to play well; but the rarest talent in the world is the ability to introduce elements of playfulness into work, and to put some constructive labor into our leisure.