If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

If you could get up the courage to begin, you have the courage to succeed.

The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.

You must begin to think of yourself as becoming the person you want to be.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

Your ultimate goal in life is to become your best self. Your immediate goal is to get on the path that will lead you there.

The highest love a person can have for you is to wish for you to evolve into the best person you can be.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

There is some place where your specialties can shine. Somewhere that difference can be expressed. It's up to you to find it, and you can.

Small caterpillars still become big butterflies.

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

One day I decided that I was beautiful, and so I carried out my life as if I was a beautiful girl.

The chief end for which He lived and died was to provide eternal redemption for mankind.

Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.

Find your passion and do it totally. The more life experience you get, the better you'll be at whatever you want to do.

What I wanted to do in rock'n'roll was merge poetry with sonic scapes, and the two people who had contributed so much to that were Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison.

I died to the law so that I might live for God.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

Despite the development of chess theory, there is much that remains secret and unexplored in chess.