Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.