Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

Optimists are happier in life for a reason.

No matter your position, circumstances, or opportunities in life, you always have the freedom of mind to choose how you experience, interpret, and, ultimately, shape your world.

There are only two types of change: Something new comes into your life, or something new comes out of you.

The time you want the map... is before you enter the woods

Successful people take their current limitation and put it on their agenda as a job to do, as a thing to figure out and make happen.

The top experts in the world are ardent students. The day you stop learning, you're definitely not an expert.

The more we are true to ourselves, the more we can connect with and contribute to the world.

Ambition has to be joined with expectancy. A sense that you have a dream for yourself that you believe can happen.

We get to choose how we're going to live - what level of energy, what level of vibrancy, what level of excitement.

Education is the process of selling someone on books.

Self-respect is nothing but self-confidence.

His smile is a stranger resting on a haunted face, only coming out for poisons turning him into a ghost.

Remember: a story is not a vignette. It has a beginning, middle and an end. It is not merely a snapshot in time.

Entrepreneurs usually don't listen to people. Trust them to do their job. Remember, you invested with the understanding the project was likely to fail.

It is difficult to realize the true Way just through sword-fencing. Know the smallest things and the biggest things, the shallowest things and the deepest things.

Freedom is the real foundation of happiness.

Nothing is really beautiful but truth, and truth alone is lovely.

There is no love. There's only love of men and women, love Of children, love of friends, of men, of God: Divine love, human love, parental love, Roughly discriminated for the rough.

More is learned in a public than in a private school, from emulation. There is the collision of mind with mind, or the radiation of many minds pointing to one center.