Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Appearances often are deceiving.

The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.

If we know exactly where we're going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we'll see along the way, we won't learn anything.

In the East, all the religions preach egolessness. So in the East, everybody is against the ego from the very beginning.

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

Every aquarium will eventually leak.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

If you don't know where you're from, you'll have a hard time saying where you're going.

Let him who would move the world first move himself.

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence.

A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

Never pick a fight with an ugly person, they've got nothing to lose.