“I wonder what will happen when you actually enjoy the pains that life gives us sometimes. You'll be above them.”

“Personally, I think it is better for me to love myself and enjoy being me, than to please someone else by pretending to be someone I'm not.”

“Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.”

“It is not the time that a person has lived that determines maturity, but what he does during that time.”

“A single word spoken at an appropriate time can make someone feel loved, comforted or happier.”

“By worrying about what will happen next year or the year after, you are using up today's time to do so.”

“If you have to do the work, do it well, with all your heart.”

“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all...”

“Trademark yourself with the mark of excellence.”

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection”

“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand & the Eskimos had a hundred words for snow. I wish I had a thousand words for love, but all that comes to mind is the way you move ag...”

“Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ”

“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”

“But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself.”

“The road to success is always under construction”