Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.
Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.
The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.
Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.
The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.
A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.
I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.
Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?