I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable,is but the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life is of the nature of wisdom.
Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.
Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
If you have no problems, then you have no clue to what is going.
The more skilled you are at something, the worse you are at it when showing someone.
Instinct is a marvellous thing. It can neither be explained nor ignored.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic
The impossible could not have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearances.
Obsession is the wellspring of genius and madness.
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.
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.
Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument.
To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.