Take every chance you get in life, because some things only happen once.

No good water comes from a muddy spring. No sweet fruit comes from a bitter seed.

Choose to be kind over being right and you’ll be right everytime.

It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.

The art of life is to live in the present moment.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, and inspiration.

The most valuable gift one can receive is thoughtful criticism.

We all need to be mocked from time to time, lest we take ourselves too seriously.

Anger, resentment, envy, and self-pity are wasteful reactions. They greatly drain one’s time. They sap energy better devoted to productive endeavors.

Talent is a gift, but character is a choice.

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act.

We must be our own before we can be another’s.

Two halves do not make a whole when it comes to a healthy relationship: it takes two wholes.

A friend who stands with you in pressure is more valuable than a hundred ones who stand with you in pleasure.

Suffering is temporary, enlightenment is forever.

Once you figure out what respect tastes like, it tastes better than attention. But you have to get there.

I walk slowly, but never backwards.

It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.

The future belongs to the common man with uncommon determination.

I try to learn as much as I can because I know nothing compared to what I need to know.

Grow through what you go through.

Live your life and forget your age.

Walls turned sideways are bridges.

There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself – an enemy who has lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

Do not let adversity break you. Think of it as a learning experience that will make you stronger.

Adversity always presents opportunities for introspection.

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth.

It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.

Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. You are still in great company.

My life isn’t perfect, but I sure am grateful for all the good that I do have.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and starting on the first one.

Nothing is permanent in this wicked world – not even our troubles.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The greatest treasure you can leave your children is a sense of modesty and the advice to follow virtuous persons.

By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.

Disrespect is the weapon of the weak.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

There is only one heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Nothing is better for self-esteem than survival.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.

The only way you can truly control how you are seen is by being honest all the time.

The intellect seeks, the heart finds.

A cup is useful only when it is empty; and a mind that is filled with beliefs, with dogmas, with assertions, with quotations is really an uncreative mind.

Fear is the greatest obstacle to learning. But fear is your best friend. Fear is like fire. If you learn to control it, you let it work for you. If you don’t learn to control it, it’ll destroy you and everything around you.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

Take the armor off, so the arrow of the Truth can penetrate you.

It’s the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.

Cold sober, I find myself absolutely fascinating.