Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.
Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!
The greatest sin is to think yourself weak
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.
A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.
Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
What does not destroy me, makes me strong.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.
Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.
