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

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

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

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

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

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

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

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