Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

You've got to get to the stage in life where going for it is more important than winning or losing.

The ideal attitude is to be physically loose and mentally tight.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

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

Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building, and after 50 floors says, ‘So far so good!’

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore, and that's what parents were created for.

A sensible woman should be guided by her head when taking a husband, and by her heart when taking a lover.