When all you can feel are the shadows, turn your face towards the sun.

Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.

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

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

Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

Waves are inspiring not because they rise and fall, but because each time they fall they never fail to rise again.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Appearance rules the world.

You must try to observe yourself more and more objectively, to look at everything in yourself as though another person.

Your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

He who has so little knowledge of human natures as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

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

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

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