Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Decide what you think is right and stick to it. Worry is a funky luxury when a lot has to be done. It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
I've always tried to go a step past wherever other people expected meto end up. When you're through changing, you're through. Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee. You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself. Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.