The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

What we do now echoes in eternity.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

I just want God’s will. And He’s allowed to go to the mountain. And I’ve looked over, and I’ve seen the promise land . . . So I’m happy tonight. I’m not worried about anything. I’m not fearing any man.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

It is not uncommon for people to spend their whole life waiting to start living.

Conquer yourself rather than the world.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Let us resolve to be masters, not victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

What is not good for the swarm is not good for the bee.

Every high civilization decays by forgetting obvious things.

If we are to achieve richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

...the individual ceases to be himself; he adopts entirely the kind of personality offered to him by cultural patterns; and he therefore becomes exactly as all others are and as they expect him to be...The person who gives up his individual self and becomes an automaton, identical with millions of other automatons around him, need not feel alone and anxious any more. But the price he pays, however, is high; it is the loss of his self.

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

This I learned in Auschwitz: There are only two races. The race of the decent and the race of the indecent.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you do or as fast. There is a time when you didn't know what you know today.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

The strength and power of a country depends absolutely on the quantity of good men and women in it.