Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.
We old athletes carry the disfigurements and markings of contests remembered only by us and no one else. Nothing is more lost than a forgotten game.
Arise! Awake! and stop not until the goal is reached.
I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.
When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive.
Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy.
Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.
A woman with opinions had better develop a thick skin and a loud voice.
Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.
There is always a way to go if you look for it.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
There are millions of people in the world, and the spirits will see that most of them you never have to meet. But there are one or two you are tied to, and the spirits will cross you back and forth, threading so many knots until they catch and you finally get it right.
It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the world…by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.
It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.
When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them. . . well, I have others.
She was a girl who knew how to be happy even when she was sad. And that’s important—you know
