Tell me what you brag about and I will tell you what you lack.
One and the same thing can at the same time be good, bad, and indifferent, e.g., music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good nor bad to the deaf.
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them
You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.
Your children are not your children. / They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.
That is the true genius of America , a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door.
Enjoy doing nothing without falling asleep - meditation
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality
I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model.. because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.
There is an immeasurable distance between late and too late.
Ignorance makes you believe that life functions haphazardly. Wisdom teaches you that everything that happens in this theatre of life has profound significance. What you see today is not the fruit of chance but a fruit from seeds planted in the past. Plant seeds of peace now and you will create a life of peace in the future.
Keep away from people who belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great, make you feel that you too can become great.
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you.
Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.
In light of knowledge attained, the happy achievement seems almost a matter of course, and any intelligent student can grasp it without too much trouble. But the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alterations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.
