The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
When all is said and done, more is said than done.
We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
The best way out is always through.
I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
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.
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
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.
I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
