There is only one reason for an individual to side-step to the useless side : the fear of a defeat on the useful side.

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.

We need men who can dream of things that never were.

We travel not just to see the beauty of new places but to see our own beauty in a new environment.

I don't want him to hurt like I'm hurting. I don't want him to miss me like I'll miss him. I don't want him to be falling for me like I've been falling for him.

World War I was not inevitable, as many historians say. It could have been avoided, and it was a diplomatically botched negotiation.

Intelligence is not a science.

Each and every soul will become consciously aware of the ability to communicate with the divine.

Now that I've got the will of the people at my back, I'm going to start enforcing the one-question rule. That was three questions.

Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.

I'd wake up in the morning and I would think, 'Where am I?' I'd have to gather myself.

Tis not in battles that from youth we train The Governor who must be wise and good, And temper with the sternness of the brain Thoughts motherly, and meek as womanhood.