#1

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

#2

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

#3

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it.

#4

Don't look at me in that tone of voice.

#5

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

#6

People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song.

#7

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

#8

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

#9

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact

#10

Christianity, if false, is not important. If Christianity is true, however, it is of infinite importance. What it cannot be is moderately important.

#11

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

#12

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

#13

Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim.

#14

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

#15

Faith without doubt is addiction

#16

Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.

#17

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

#18

Failure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don't fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.

#19

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

#20

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.

#21

Sometimes our light goes out, but is blown again into instant flame by an encounter with another human being.

#22

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

#23

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

#24

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

#25

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens

#26

If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.

#27

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

#28

Whatever you are, be a good one.

#29

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

#30

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

#31

It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.