“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

“Do one thing every day that scares you.”

“Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.”

“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

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

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.”

“It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.”

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

“We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.”

“To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.”

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. ”

“If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s your fault.”

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.”

“Happiness is not a goal…it’s a by-product of a life well lived.”

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

“You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.”

“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. ”