Great acts are made up of small deeds.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.

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.

Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed possible

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.

We thought that we had the answers, it was the questions we had wrong.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom; justice; honor; duty; mercy; hope.

Yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty.

It is tact that is golden, not silence.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Destiny is not a passive agent that lies in the lap of the Gods, but is an active instrument that lies in your own hands to shape as you will.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.