Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

When I give, I give myself.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.

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

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.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

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

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

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

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.