Once a person says, "This is who I really am, what I am all about, what I was really meant to do," it is easier to decide how to spend one's time.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

If we require some kind of sign, or "proof, " for our belief in God, then we believe, or place our tust, not in God but in the sign or proof.

In every age it has been the tyrant, the oppressor and the exploiter who has wrapped himself in the cloak of patriotism, or religion, or both to deceive and overawe the People.", June 16, 1918)

As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those who own nothing else.

I am a beast until I love as God doth love.

If you give people light, they will find their own way.

In the future, torture will once again become the recreational sport of the rich.

There are no chains like hate...dwelling on your brother's faults multiplies your own. You are far from the end of your journey.

A man may be variously accomplished, and yet be a feeble poet.

When I was growing up in East Germay, everyone said there was no God. So I started looking for it myself.

I took that bible and I went home and I held it up and I said God, I really don't know you and I don't know myself and I don't know life, but I believe the answers are in this book.