To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

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

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

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

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.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

You shape your own destiny.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

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

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.