Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

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.

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

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.