The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.