I will follow the good side right to the fire, but not into it if I can help it.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

Put your greatest possession on the tallest shelf, so if you fall you have something to reach for.

A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

There's no such thing as chance; and what to us seems merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

If things seem under control, you are just not going fast enough.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

I dream, I test my dreams against my beliefs, I dare to take risks, and I execute my vision to make those dreams come true.