The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.

Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.

Success isn’t about how your life looks to others; it’s about how it feels to you.

Human beings must always be on the watch for the coming of wonders.

Attention is a moral act: It creates, brings aspects of things into being.

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Failure is a greater teacher than success. Listen, learn, go on.