“I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

“It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.”

“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”

“Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

“A man is what he thinks about all day long.”

“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”

“’Tis said that courage is common, but the immense esteem in which it is held proves it to be rare.”

“A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.”

“It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person: 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'”

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.”

“Life is a succession of lessons that must be lived to be understood.”