The realization of the self is only possible if one is productive, if one can give birth to one's own potentialities.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Never take lightly that becoming an employer puts another person’s ability to provide for their life in your hands.

Competition is a bad company [kusang, the company which will bring our downfall].

How could I choose someone who would force me to give up my own small reach for meaning? I chose myself, and without consolation.

There is a constant conflict between What you're and What I think YOU ARE!

If our political leaders are to be always a lot of political merchants, they will supply any demand we may create. All we have to do is to establish a steady demand for good government.

We turn now over the debate of the proposed Islamic center and mosque near Ground Zero....The controversy has raised profound questions about religious tolerance and prejudice in the United States.

I walked about 55 kilometers and was awake for 25 hours. Now I have to think about setting a sleeping record.

You say you felt a presence, but I only sensed an absence. A vague pain without a source. I was like a patient who cannot tell the doctor where it hurts, only that it does.

Thank God we in Iran have neither the desire nor the need to suffer from democracy.

Anticipation leads the way to victory, and is the spur to conquest.