When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

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.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

You are never too old to become younger!

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.