The great advantage of being in a rut is that when one is in a rut, one knows exactly where one is.

If you're gonna leave your mark, you can't follow a bunch of sheep, you gotta listen to your heart.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

If we never take a risk, we'll never know the parts of ourselves that would have emerged if we had.

There were two kinds of women: those who wear nail polish and those who don't. Which do you prefer?

Faithfulness in small things leads to faithfulness in great things, and never the other way around.

There are two ways to face the future. One way is with apprehension; the other is with anticipation

Of the gladdest moments in human life...is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.

I would give all the wealth of the world, and all the deeds of all the heroes, for one true vision.

A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.

Success is due to our stretching to the challenges of life. Failure comes when we shrink from them.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship.

You owe it to yourself to find your own unorthodox way of succeeding, or sometimes, just surviving.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing.

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

Never will a time come when the most marvelous recent invention is as marvelous as a newborn child.

I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

I just think that when my confidence meets other people's insecurity, that equals Kanye's arrogant.

Now there is in a way a renaissance of modern dance - suddenly, it is more respected and discovered.

The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.

Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.

The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.

Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

There is no disguise which can hide love for long where it exists, or simulate it where it does not.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.

The idea is to just stop. Just wait. Don't react. Therein lies the whole universe. Just don't react.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

Kunta Kinte is the closest thing I've ever seen... to a superhero. He's amazing. He's inspirational.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

A thing that is really done from the heart will one day or another again touch the hearts of others.

The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

In the dark times Will there also be singing? Yes, there will also be singing. About the dark times.

If you could envision... the meaning of a tragedy... you might be surprised to hear, its you and me.

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.

Neither the Army nor the Navy is of any protection, or very little protection, against aerial raids.

Think big and don't listen to people who tell you it can't be done. Life's too short to think small.

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

If your mind can go along with you it is a blessing. If your mind obeys you, it is a super-blessing.

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