If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

Pain is inevitable.
Suffering is optional.

To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don't need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

None but ourselves can free our minds.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

You don't need to be better than any one else, you just need to be better than you used to be.

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

At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

If your love is only a will to possess, it's not love

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent.

You're going to come across people in your life who will say all the right words at all the right times. But in the end, it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words, that matter.

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

The starting point of all achievement is DESIRE. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desire brings weak results, just as a small fire makes a small amount of heat.

Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbour says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

You never fail until you stop trying.