Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.
Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.
As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.
You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you.
The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.
The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
In order to write about life first you must live it.
The time is always right to do the right thing.
When you get to the end of your rope. Tie a knot and hang on.
Respect yourself and others will respect you.
There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.
You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.