Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.
Learn everything you can, anytime you can, from anyone you can – there will always come a time when you will be grateful you did.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.
I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catcher’s mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.
At age 20, we worry about what others think of us. At age 40, we don’t care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking of us at all.
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don’t repeat it.
If you’re not in the arena also getting your ass kicked, I’m not interested in your feedback.
Every experience is a positive experience if I view it as an opportunity for growth and self-mastery.
Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.
Effective leaders are made, not born. They learn from trial and error, and from experience.
It was my life – like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.
Once a year go somewhere you have never been before.
Life is a series of moments. The quality of attention and action that we bring to each moment determines the quality of our lives.
View life as a continuous learning experience.
No one is born with self confidence. Self confidence is learned and earned with experience.
Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.
Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
Wherever you are, be there totally.