Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

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.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.

You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

The only way to live, is knowing you’re going to die. If you're afraid to die, you'll never be able to live.

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

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.

Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.

Loosen up. Life is a lesson. Learn from it and progress on!

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he as imagined, he will meet with success unexpectedly in common hours.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.