When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It's to enjoy each step along the way.

We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.

So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.

Circumstances do not make a man, they reveal him.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.

It seems essential, in relationships and all tasks, that we concentrate only on what is most significant and important.

It is neither good nor bad, but thinking makes it so.

When playing board-games which involve quizzes etc, you will always know the answers to everyone else's set of questions but never your own.

Good means not merely not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.

Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.

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

The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

You can be rich in spirit, kindness, love and all those things that you can't put a dollar sign on.