To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?