“Learn to... be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not. ”

“Dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.”

“Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.”

“Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.”

“It is not what he has, nor even what he does, which directly expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.”

“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering.”

“I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.”