If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...
You can wish for things in the future to be different, but in this moment you have to accept things as they are.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
How long should you try? Until.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.
Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.
We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.
Make today worth remembering.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.