It is necessary to try to surpass oneself always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.

You will learn and grow according to the nature and consequences of your actions.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Without some goals and some efforts to reach it, no man can live.

Long-term consistency trumps short-term intensity.

Never be bored, and you will never be boring.

Dancing is not just getting up painlessly, like a leaf blown on the wind; dancing is when you tear your heart out and rise out of your body to hang suspended between the worlds.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not everyone's greed.

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything.

Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even dearth is one of the things that Nature wills.

Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

If someone succeeds in provoking you, realize that your mind is complicit in the provocation.

The stability of the internal medium is a primary condition for the freedom and independence of certain living bodies in relation to the environment surrounding them.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, buy you will never imprison my mind.

You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

If you cannot be honest with yourself, there is no hope of being honest with anyone else.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

I refuse to accept the idea that the “isness” of man’s present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the “oughtness” that forever confronts him.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.