I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

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

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

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.