You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult

A sword by itself does not slay; it is merely the weapon used by the slayer.

The important thing about a problem is not its solution, but the strength we gain in finding the solution

Don't stumble over something behind you.

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.

Great men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

There in no one more unfortunate than the man who has never been unfortunate. for it has never been in his power to try himself.

It's all in your headJ you have the power to make things seem hard or easy or even amusing. The choice is yours.

Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.

Play life on hard. Easy might be safer but where is the fun in that?

There are always some positive things happening in your life, but you would only notice them if you take your mind off from your negative experiences and start to focus on your daily blessings.

Someday without any reason dance in frenzy in total let go.

Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been no more reticent.

The beating of my heart was so violent and wild that I felt as if my life were breaking from me.

One has just been sent out as a biblical dove, has found nothing green, and slips back into the darkness of the Ark

And that vest won't help, cuz I'm aimin' at yo scalp

Even if I played for a million years, I’d never come close to Maradona. Not that I’d want to anyway. He’s the greatest there’s ever been.

We must understand the connection between inner solitude and inner silence; they are inseparable. All the masters of the interior life speak of the two in the same breath.

There was a whole language that I could never make function for myself in relationship to painting, and that was attitudes like tortured, struggle, pain.