Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

One just needs a little alertness to see and find out: Life is really a great cosmic laughter.

Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

You don't become what you want, you become what you believe

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres.

The cure for pain is in the pain.

Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Courage, above all things, is the first quality of a warrior.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.

Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You cannot be improved. You have only to come to it, to know it, to realize it.

Whatever you think the world is withholding from you, you are withholding from the world.

All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.

We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

What's real and what's true aren't necessarily the same.

A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence.

Don't criticize what you don't understand, son. You never walked in that man's shoes.

Wisdom is not the product of schooling, but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.