Never take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

A leader who does not take advice is not a leader.

Races are not won by the fastest athletes. Fights are not won by the strongest men. But the races are won and the fights are won by those who want to win most of all.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.

You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it is better to listen to what it has to say.

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

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

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

God, give us the grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

If you must look back, do so forgivingly. If you must look forward, do so prayerfully. However, the wisest thing you can do is be present in the present...gratefully.

Nobody is more inferior than those who insists on being equal.

Fortunately psychoanalysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.