“Friendship is thinking of the other person first.”

“You and your purpose in life are the same thing. Your purpose is to be you.”

“What is given to you is what is needed; what you want, requires giving up what you don't need.”

“As you change your point of view, your views bring about a change in you.”

“Life is sweet or bitter depending on where your attention is, at that moment.”

“Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.”

“If you have a good idea, use it so that you will not only accomplish something, but so that you can make room for new ones to flow into you.”

“The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra.”

“Do it badly; do it slowly; do it fearfully; do it any way you have to, but do it.”

“No man needs sympathy because he has to work, because he has a burden to carry. Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.”

“All my life I've been surrounded by people who are smarter than I am, but I found I could always keep up by working hard.”

“Loveless work, boring work, work valued only because others haven't got even that much, however loveless and boring--this is one of the harshest human miseries.”

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.”

“The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yieldin...”