A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.

To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl of be found in the dark folds of life.

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

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.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

It's the truth I'm after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance.

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself.

The true profession of a man is to find his way to himself.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

An aspiration is a joy forever, a possession as solid as a landed estate, a fortune which we can never exhaust and which gives us year by year a revenue of pleasurable activity.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.