“Sometimes it takes a good fall to really know where you stand”

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....”

“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.”

“Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.”

“Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.”

“It is not the length of life, but the depth.”

“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?”

“You endure what is unbearable, and you bear it. That is all.”

“Always find opportunities to make someone smile, and to offer random acts of kindness in everyday life.”

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

“Never lose hope. Storms make people stronger and never last forever.”

“Do not fear failure but rather fear not trying.”

“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”

“You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.”

“A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.”

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”