The educator must believe in the potential power of his pupil, and he must employ all his art in seeking to bring his pupil to experience this power.

Overcoming difficulties leads to courage, self-respect, and knowing yourself.

Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of character are trusted.

You can be healed of depression if every day you begin the first thing in the morning to consider how you will bring a real joy to someone else.

It is very obvious that we are not influenced by "facts" but by our interpretation of the facts.

Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.

Trust only movement. Life happens at the level of events, not of words. Trust movement.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

To see with the eyes of another, to hear with the ears of another, to feel with the heart of another. For the time being, this seems to me an admissible definition of what we call social feeling.

A simple rule in dealing with those who are hard to get along with is to remember that this person is striving to assert his superiority; and you must deal with him from that point of view.

What is courage? Courage is the willingness to risk failure...There is only one danger I find in life, and that, indeed, is a real one. You may take too many precautions.

When we have no reason to be happy we often think to end ourselves, We often think we have no one in this world, it happens when our loved ones leave us and make us alone in this vast universe.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself.

I got involved with an acting school and studied for a couple years. They used to have improv exercises that you would work on and you would do improvs.

You have to stop worrying about looking foolish, 'cause fear of being humiliated really limits you.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

The situation in Iraq and the reckless economic policies in the United States speak to one issue for me, and that is the competence of our leader.

People have just assumed that... if we call our Facebook acquaintances our friends, we must be influenced by them, too. But we're not.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

If there are witnesses the government interviewed who suggest other people were involved or that Tim McVeigh was not involved, those are critical matters that would have to be investigated.

I should try to get some sleep as one doesn't know what tomorrow may bring.