The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.