Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

Adapt what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

I mistrust the judgement of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

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

The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.

We never see ourselves as others see us.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

One who loses wealth loses much. One who loses a friend loses more. But one who loses courage loses all.

One new feature or fresh take can change everything.

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.

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.