We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee.

It is none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.