Compared to what we ought to be, we are only half awake. We are making use of only a small part of our physical and mental resources.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

There is a proper dignity and proportion to be observed in the performance of every act of life.

You have no idea what your legacy will be. Your legacy is what you do every day. Your legacy is every life you’ve touched, every person whose life was either moved or not. It’s every person you’ve harmed or helped. That’s your legacy.

All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and will be lost.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of everything else to which he is justly entitled.

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.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.