“Self-discipline is a continuous war against your whims.”

“Some things are more important than polished stone.”

“Not wanting to be destroyed by despair doesn’t make you a coward. It makes you a survivor.”

“There are two kinds of opportunities: one which we chance upon, the other which we create.”

“I clung to books and words because, unlike people, they’d never abandon me.”

“Did you ever look back at some moment in your past and have it suddenly grow so vivid that all the intervening years seemed brief, dreamlike, impersonal—the motions of a May afternoon surrendered to routine?”

“Other people will try to decide things for you, she says. They'll try to tell you who you are. Remember, no matter what they say, you're the only who really decides.”

“For your life to be great,your faith must be bigger than your fear.”