I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

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

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

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

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.