I have to face life with a newly found passion. I must rediscover the irresistible will to learn, to live and to love.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

The very key to our success has been our ability, foremost among nations, to preserve our lasting values by making change work for us rather than against us.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

You write in order to change the world…the world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even but a millimetre the way people look at reality, then you change it.

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

You can’t change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

Most bold change is the result of a hundred thousand tiny changes that culminate in a bold product or procedure or structure.

I've learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.

Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

There are few things more pathetic than those who have lost their curiosity and sense of adventure, and who no longer care to learn.

Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn’t learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn’t learn a little, at least we didn’t get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn’t die; so, let us all be thankful.

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

To have and to hold from this day forward, for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death do us part.

You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.

Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.

What barrier is there that love cannot break?

What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.

Why has government been instituted? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason & justice without constraint.

Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work.

Pleasure without joy is as hollow as passion without tenderness.

And, more importantly, reach for the stars. And realize that it is never too late—not now, not ever—for you to pursue you passion, your pursuit of perfection. And most importantly, your perseverance for making it happen.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.