The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

The time is always right to do the right thing

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.