If I were dropped out of a plane into the ocean and told the nearest land was a thousand miles away, I'd still swim. And I'd despise the one who gave up.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

It isn't normal to know what we want. It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

We need not take refuge in supernatural gods to explain our saints and sages and heroes and statesmen, as if to explain our disbelief that mere unaided human beings could be that good or wise.

The most stable, and therefore, the most healthy self-esteem is based on deserved respect from others rather than on external fame or celebrity and unwarranted adulation.

I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Obviously the most beautiful fate, the most wonderful good fortune that can happen to any human being, is to be paid for doing that which he passionately loves to do.

If your only tool is a hammer then every problem looks like a nail.

In a word, growth and improvement can come through pain and conflict.

Perhaps adjustment and stabilization, while good because it cuts your pain, is also bad because development towards a higher ideal ceases?

Your life was meant to be used to fulfill your purpose and destiny.

Don’t worry. Cast your anxieties upon the Lord!

The worst choice you can make, is no choice at all.

Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.

I'd like to think, that were he alive today, Andy Warhol would be painting the Housewives.

If we want an America of heroes, we need to cherish our heroes of the past.

Flagrant evils cure themselves by being flagrant.

I really do believe most people understand raising tax rates is bad for the economy, it costs jobs. It actually in the long term undermines revenue.

Have you never thought how danger must surround power as shadow does light?

Your life can't go according to plan if you have no plan.