Everyone has a talent. What is rare is the courage to nurture it in solitude and to follow the talent to the dark places where it leads.

Take your life in your own hands and what happens A terrible thing no one to blame.

Friends LOVE misery, in fact. Sometimes, especially if we are too luck or too successful or too pretty, our misery is the only thing that endears us to our friends.

Advice is what you ask for when you already know the answer but wish you didn’t.

True love is like ghosts, which everybody talks about and few have seen.

I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me. I have accepted fear as a part of life–specifically the fear of change, the fear of the unknown and I have gone ahead despite the pounding in my heart that says turn back, turn back, you’ll die if you venture too far.

I know some good marriages — marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

If you don’t risk anything you risk even more.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.

Love is everything it’s cracked up to beIt really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.

Talent does what it can genius does what it must.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.

I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiousity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.