I have gotten where I am today only because I have persisted against all odds for a long time.

Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.

When you have got the greatest mountain of hardship that you’ve ever faced to deal with, you also have the greatest opportunity to act on a stronger faith than you’ve ever acted on before.

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.

A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play.

The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first.

It ain't what things actually are, it's all they stand for.

Cultivating a generous spirit starts with mindfulness. Mindfulness, simply stated, means paying attention to what is actually happening; it's about what is really going on.