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

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

You are never too old to become younger!

Listen to many, speak to a few.

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

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

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

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.