To go too far is as bad as to fall short.
If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
Only when I fall do I get up again.
Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
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.
After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.
I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.
Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.
Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.