If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

You shape your own destiny.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

The man with no imagination has no wings.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

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

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?