Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story.

One that would have the fruit must climb the tree.

Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.

The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented.

You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

There is always something left to love. And if you haven’t learned that, you ain’t learned nothing.

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.

Simplicity is the key to brilliance.

We’ve got to learn hard things in our lifetime, but it’s love that gives you the strength. It’s being nice to people and having a lot of fun and laughing harder than anything, hopefully every single day of your life.

I am increasingly an architect of self. I am free to will and choose. I can, through accepting my individuality… become more of my uniqueness, more of my potentiality.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

The best way to view a present problem is to give it all you’ve got, to study it and its nature, to perceive within it the intrinsic interrelationships, to discover the answer to the problem within the problem itself.

If someone has offended you, insulted you, or disappointed you, let it go! If you are remembering all the ways you have been hurt or forgotten, let it go! Ask yourself, what good does it do for me to hold on to this?

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Winning takes talent; to repeat takes character.

All men have their frailties; and whoever looks for a friend without imperfections, will never find what he seeks.

Nothing is more graceful than habitual cheerfulness.

You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?’

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.

We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.

Doesn’t matter if the glass is half-empty or half-full. All that matters is that you are the one pouring the water.

A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.

Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.

Man does not live by murder alone. He needs affection, approval, encouragement and, occasionally, a hearty meal.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That’s why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift… for those who are willing to receive it.

The best way to be, is to do.

If you don’t wake up every day happy, change something.

My pain may be the reason for somebody’s laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody’s pain.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

You can be creative only when there is abandonment-which means, really, there is no sense of compulsion, no fear of not being, of not gaining, of not arriving. Then there is great austerity, simplicity, and with it there is love.

Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat.

We ought to give thanks for all fortune: if it is good, because it is good; if bad, because it works in us patience, humility, contempt of this world and the hope of our eternal country.

Do we really have the right to take care of ourselves? Do we really have the right to set boundaries? Do we really have the right to be direct and say what we need to say? You bet we do.

Figures don’t lie, but liars figure.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment.

My religion is not deceiving myself.

The real does not die, the unreal never lived.

Earnestness is the best gift of mental power, and deficiency of heart is the cause of many men never becoming great.

Try and fail, but don’t fail to try.

If you can’t be a highway, then just be a trail, If you can’t be the sun, be a star; It isn’t by size that you win or you fail. Be the best of whatever you are.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

If we focus too much on ourselves, we’ll not be happy, whereas to concern ourselves with the well-being of others is the gateway to great joy. If we’re really serious about happiness, we need to open our hearts and focus on others as well as ourselves.

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.