Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Arise, awake, stop not until your goal is achieved.

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.

Do not lower your goals to the level of your abilities. Instead, raise your abilities to the height of your goals.

Never say NO, Never say, 'I cannot', for you are INFINITE. All the power is WITHIN you. You can do anything.

Take Risks in Your Life If you Win, U Can Lead! If You Lose, You can Guide!

Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death.

Society does not go down because of the activities of criminals, But because of the inactivities of the good people.

As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves.

When a unicorn is slain, men have destroyed again the image of beauty that they seek.

The moment you will be most stiff is when you die - you never get stiffer than that. So you've got to sleep well, eat well and keep moving.

Being a vegan is pretty easy these days, as almost every town and city has health food stores and vegetarian-friendly restaurants.

You learn from the good, you learn from the bad.

You can't count on notoriety lasting very long, and there's no way to predict whether anyone will care about your books or you in three years, let alone ten or twenty.

And so they played some of the world's loveliest piano music - the exiled homesick girl, the humiliated, tired old man. Not properly. Better than that.

I've always had bizarre, negative feelings about anything traditional, like marriage and family. I never thought something like that worked.

It’s a hard thing to leave any deeply routine life, even if you hate it.

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Regarding heroism, I grew up in a culture where you learn about heroes and heroines all the time. In a way, when you call someone a hero or heroine, it's the same as calling them a villain.