To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be
Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.
To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.
