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

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

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

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.