Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is read more

Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

Everything is sweetened by risk.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realise.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

In love, it is better to know and be disappointed, than to not know and always wonder.

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. read more

To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket- safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take read more

Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.