"My greatest victory has been to be able to live with myself, to accept my shortcomings. I'm a long way from the human being I'd liked to be, but I've decided I'm not so bad after all."

"I like people to be unhappy because I like them to have souls."

"Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie."

"The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you."

"You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it."

"The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."