Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

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

None but ourselves can free our minds.

How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

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

If you buy what you do not need, you will need what you cannot buy.

It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.

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

You always admire what you really don't understand.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.

You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean, in a drop.

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

Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music.

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

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.