For we walk by faith, not by sight

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

The first thing you'll have to do, is the last thing you wished.

If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?

Energy may be likened to the bending of a crossbow; decision,to the releasing of a trigger.

Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little death.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The essence of knowledge is, having it, to apply it; not having it, to confess your ignorance.

To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.

There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

Dark and difficult times lie ahead. Soon we must all face the choice between what is right and what is easy.

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic

This is something basic to be understood: the ego must come to a peak, it must be strong, it must have attained an integrity only then can you dissolve it.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

A precedent embalms a principle.