Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

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.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.