No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.
Courage is grace under pressure.
Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.
Everyone wants to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
Wake up and live.
Just be yourself, there is no one better.
No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.
What is a teacher? I’ll tell you: it isn’t someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to give of her best in order to discover what she already knows.
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.
Experience life in all possible ways – good, bad, bitter-sweet, dark, light, summer, winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
If you do follow your bliss you put yourself on a kind of track that has been there all the while, waiting for you, and the life that you ought to be living is the one you are living. Follow your bliss and don’t be afraid, and doors will open where you didn’t know they were going to be.
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
I’ve come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that’s as unique as a fingerprint – and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you.
Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.
Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody’s going to know whether you did it or not.
When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.
Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.