No experience is a cause of success or failure. We do not suffer from the shock of our experiences, so-called trauma - but we make out of them just what suits our purposes.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY!True anyhow no matter how manyLiars use those words.

The best journey of life that you can take is inside yourself to discover your new thoughts, new ideas, and new hopes.

It is the ant, not the lion, which the elephant fears.

Information may travel at light speed, but meaning spreads at the speed of dark.

I think more women should be involved in politics for the good of the human race.

If it were not for uncertainties, we would have no need to walk by faith.

Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.

I will probably go to jail, but do you know what? There's a lot of good people who go to jail.

The problem is to extract the desirable traits of forms of community life which actually exist, and employ them to criticize undesirable features and suggest improvement

I went to the top of the Cotton Bowl by myself, sat down and cried.