Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you.
In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you.
What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.

The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

A ship is always safe at the shore,
but that is NOT what it is built for.

A debate is usually a heated conversation with two people talking to each other and listening to themselves.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future.

To see what is right, and not do it is the worst cowardice.

You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue.

Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.

What the superior man seeks is in himself; is what the small man seeks in others.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

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

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

If your plan is for one year, plant rice. If your plan is for ten years, plant trees. If your plan is for one hundred years, educate children.

No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.

The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself.