Our modern states are preparing for war without even knowing the future enemy.

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.

Before she could ponder what on earth he meant or come up with a proper response, he took their charade a step further.He kissed her.

Two of man's basic needs are to love and to share. Both of these needs are satisfied in greater or lesser degree by friendship.

As long as there are men the bulwark is safe.

Pissing people off doesn't mean you're doing the right things, but doing the right things will almost inevitably piss people off.

The need to treat ourselves as well as we treat others. It's women's version of the Golden Rule.

Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

I play because I have fun, if I don't have fun on the court, there is something wrong. I am just a 19 year old boy that likes to do what he likes, nothing else.

With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up.

The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.