A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it is not open.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

We can only know where we’re going if we know where we’ve been.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

If you really want to do something, you’ll find a way. If you don’t, you’ll find an excuse.

No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

If you are born poor its not your mistake, But if you die poor its your mistake.

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

To my mind, if we do not get a handle on money in politics and the degree to which big money controls the political process in this country, nobody is going to bring about the changes that is needed in this country for the middle class and working families.

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.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, I know I can achieve it.

If you want peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

When you talk you are only repeating something you already know. But, if you listen you may learn something new.

For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

If you want to know who controls you, look at who you are not allowed to criticize.

There is no limit to the amount of good you can do if you don’t care who gets the credit.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.

There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. Fear of the unknown is our greatest fear. Many of us would enter a tiger’s lair before we would enter a dark cave. While caution is a useful instinct, we lose many opportunities and much of the adventure of life if we fail to support the curious explorer within us.

There can be no progress if people have no faith in tomorrow.

A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.

Worry a little bit every day and in a lifetime you will lose a couple of years. If something is wrong, fix it if you can. But train yourself not to worry: Worry never fixes anything.

If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.

If a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you won’t give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.

If you’re always battling against getting older, you’re always going to be unhappy, because it’s going to happen anyhow.

If you’re really successful at bullshitting, it means you’re not hanging around enough people smarter than you.