I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

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

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other opportunity.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

If you can dream it, you can do it.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.