Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

Ideas come from everything

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'

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

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.