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

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

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

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

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

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

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

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

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.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.