We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.
I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
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.
I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
Make today worth remembering.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
