Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

My dark days made me strong. Or maybe I already was strong, and they made me prove it.

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

You will never get any more out of life than you expect.

The ability to learn is the most important quality a leader can have.

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us.

You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

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

To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.

Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.