Embrace your dreams and advance as far as they can take you.

With love and patience, nothing is impossible.

What may look like a small act of courage is courage nevertheless. The important thing is to be willing to take a step forward.

You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life.

Freedom doesn't mean the absence of all restrictions. It means possessing unshakable conviction in the face of any obstacle.

Salute to the Smiling Faces of the 21st Century.

No matter what our personal circumstances may be, if we ourselves become a source of light, then there will be no darkness in the world.

I cannot say this too strongly: Do not compare yourselves to others. Be true to who you are, and continue to learn with all your might.

What matters is the value we’ve created in our lives, the people we’ve made happy and how much we’ve grown as people.

Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.

Being sincere, dedicated and honest is the key. People of integrity triumph in the end.

Man will never reach the higher wisdom, If he can't yet accept the pain of change.

Nationality isn't soul.

I truly believe that we cannot come to a place of reconciliation until there is individual repentance and corporate repentance.

I don't consider myself a good actor at all. I just do what I want to do, and I'm just having fun doing it.

All our contemporary philosophers perhaps without knowing it are looking through eyeglasses that Baruch Spinoza polished. Spinoza was a philosopher who earned his livelihood by grinding lenses.

Be a father first. Don't put a priority of being a friend with your wife first, or a friend with your kids first.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

Could I be assured that America would remain virtuous, I would venture to defy the utmost Efforts of Enemies to subjugate her.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.