Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don't fight them. Just find a new way to stand.

Those who can not change their minds can not change anything.

The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.

One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity.

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Judge not unless you judge yourself.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me'.