The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

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

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

Freedom and independence form my character.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.