If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

I was taught to strive not because there were any guarantees of success but because the act of striving is in itself the only way to keep faith with life

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.

Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for.