You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

Honesty is the best policy.

Have patience.
All things are difficult
before they become easy.

Life is 10 percent
what happens to you

and 90 percent
how you respond to it.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

To put the world in order,
we must first put the nation in order;

to put the nation in order,
we must first put the family in order;

to put the family in order;
we must first cultivate our personal life;

we must first set our hearts right.

Weak is he who permits his thoughts to control his actions. Strong is he who forces his actions to control his thoughts.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.

Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.

All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

Always desire to learn something useful.

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.

The future belong to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.