Take the leap! You cannot cross a chasm in little jumps.

There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.

Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one's awareness of one's ignorance.

If it is peace you want, seek to change yourself, not other people. It is easier to protect your feet with slippers than to carpet the whole of the earth.

Another illusion is that external events have the power to hurt you, that other people have the power to hurt you. They don't. It's you who give this power to them.

Extend your arms in welcome to the future. The best is yet to come!

When you fight something, you're tied to it forever. As long as you're fighting it, you’re giving it power.

You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something.

One year of life is worth more than twenty years of hibernation.

"What is love?"; "The total absence of fear," said the Master; "What is it we fear?"; "Love," said the Master.

A nice definition of an awakened person: a person who no longer marches to the drums of society, a person who dances to the tune of the music that springs up from within.

Do we always do the things that God would take pleasure, or that we do things we think God would take pleasure.

Hey wedding DJ, there is no way in hell I'm paying you $1, 000 when all you're doing is plugging your iPod into the sound system #AHOLE

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

Ocean into tempest wrought, To waft a feather, or to drown a fly.

Like strength is felt from hope, and from despair.

Without question, the notion of the doctor as a legitimate fee-for-service entrepreneur, making his fortune from misfortunes of his patients, is old-fashioned, distasteful, and doomed.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

And of course coming from Massachusetts, Rocky Marciano was my favorite.

If I can join hands with FIFA and other continental bodies to promote football globally, then I can do more than that to raise African football to new heights.

Sentimentality is a failure of feeling.