Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

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.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

You are never too old to become younger!

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

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

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!