Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

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

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Be yourself, let you come through.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.