And our dreams are who we are.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Isolation is a dream killer.

Those who believe in justice find silence too great a burden to carry.

Maybe there is no such thing as success—a final destination where you arrive once and for all. Maybe existence is a never-ending journey of peaks and valleys and forever chasing dreams.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

How we remember what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

He didn't try to take the net off its hinges with that header.

The last day will prove that some of the holiest men that ever lived are hardly known.

If you don't watch it people will force you one way or the other, into doing what they think you should do, or into just being mule-stubborn and doing the opposite out of spite.

You couldn't give up you for them. But what if you wanted them more than you wanted a singular powerful you?

Do your best and then relax.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.