You are what you are and you are where you are because of what has gone into your mind. You change what you are and you change where you are by changing what goes into your mind.

By three methods we may learn wisdom:

First, by reflection, which is noblest;

Second, by imitation, which is easiest;

and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.”

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

You can become blind by seeing each day as a similar one. Each day is a different one; each day brings a miracle of its own. It's just a matter of paying attention to this miracle.

How does one know if she has forgiven?

You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage.

You tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him.

You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

What we think determines what happens to us.

So if we want to change our lives,
we need to stretch our minds.

I have decided to stick with love.
Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Peace is its own reward.

When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.

When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world . . . as in being able to remake ourselves.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention.

To not be like your parents.

To not be like your friends.

To be yourself.

To cut yourself out of stone.