It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

The most important thing is to enjoy your life – to be happy – it’s all that matters.

Never mistake motion for action.

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes. If you foolishly ignore beauty, you will soon find yourself without it. Your life will be impoverished. But if you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.

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

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight – it’s the size of the fight in the dog.

Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

It’s gonna be okay, no matter how hard your rock bottom is, you can rise above it and you can come back.

At the end of the day it doesn’t matter what anybody else thinks as long as you’re happy.

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.

Some age. Others mature.

What’s money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.

You don’t lead by hitting people over the head – that’s assault, not leadership.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says ‘I’m possible’!

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

Any idiot can face a crisis – it’s day to day living that wears you out.

Vision creates faith and faith creates willpower. With faith there is no anxiety and no doubt – just absolute confidence in yourself.

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.

The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own Earth. It is at least the geometric pattern of things, of life, of the human and social world. It is at best that magic framework of reality that we sometimes touch upon when we use the word order.

You’re only given a little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.

Why do they always teach us that it’s easy and evil to do what we want and that we need discipline to restrain ourselves? It’s the hardest thing in the world–to do what we want. And it takes the greatest kind of courage. I mean, what we really want.

The process begins with the individual woman’s acceptance that American women, without exception, are socialized to be racist, classist and sexist, in varying degrees, and that labeling ourselves feminists does not change the fact that we must consciously work to rid ourselves of the legacy of negative socialization.