In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Within the child lies the fate of the future.

The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

When all life is seen as divine, everyone grows wings.

To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.

Let silence take you to the core of life.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

Some people are desperately looking for scapegoats, they just don't want to see the truth!

Sow a thought and you get an act; Sow an act and you get a habit; Sow a habit and you get a character; Sow a character and you get a destiny.

The pleasure of the moment begins to wither almost as soon as it blossoms; our pleasures are soon swallowed up in time's relentless torrent.

Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

My art and profession is to live.

Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.

The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in a proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease.