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“There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”
“Wherever there is danger, there lurks opportunity; wherever there is opportunity, there lurks danger. The two are inseparable.”
“The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.”
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.”
“No man is free who is not master of himself.”
“Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough. ”
“A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.”
“The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering. ”
“The great end of life is not knowledge but action.”
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.”
“If you truly expect something to be difficult, it will be.”
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent without effort is like an unpolished gem. Its possibilities are within it, but necessity has not yet activated all its parts. That gem becomes polished only by the intense heat applied from within.”
“There are no accidents... there is only some purpose that we haven't yet understood.”
“Nature never breaks her own laws.”
“By words the mind is winged.”
“Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out.”
“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
“Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, patience, and passion to reach for the stars and change the world.”
“We lie the loudest when we lie to ourselves.”
“If you care about someone enough, you'll always be there for them no matter what.”
“Enlightenment is intimacy with all things.”
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
“It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.”
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”
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