Walking with a friend in the dark is better than walking alone in the light.”

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.”

Spend some time alone every day.”

Too many people spend money they haven't earned, to buy things they don't want, to impress people they don't like.”

“I learned that we can do anything, but we can't do everything... at least not at the same time. So think of your priorities not in terms of what activities you do, but when you do them. Timing is everything.”

Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes”

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.”

Faith means living with uncertainty - feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark”

Everything you'll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body. But you haven't learned how to read the wisdom of the body”

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall”

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”

A friend is one that knows you as you are, understands where you have been, accepts what you have become, and still, gently allows you to grow.”

Teaching is more than imparting knowledge, it is inspiring change.
Learning is more than absorbing facts, it is acquiring understanding.”

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.”

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”

Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.”

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

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

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”

You must know that in any moment a decision you make can change the course of your life forever: the very next person stand behind in line or sit next to on an airplane, the very next phone call you make or receive, the very next movie you see or book you read or page you turn could be the one single thing that causes the floodgates to open, and all of the things that you've been waiting for to fall into place.”

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

Women marry men hoping they will change. Men marry women hoping they will not. So each is inevitably disappointed.”

Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.”

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”

A true man does not need to romance a different girl every night, a true man romances the same girl for the rest of her life”

The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them”

You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor”

A well-ordered life is like climbing a tower; the view halfway up is better than the view from the base, and it steadily becomes finer as the horizon expands.”

If you develop the absolute sense of certainty that powerful beliefs provide, then you can get yourself to accomplish virtually anything, including those things that other people are certain are impossible.”

The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others.”

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.”

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you”

“If you got a job it would ruin your career.”

Sometimes the wrong way is the right direction.”

Beyond every millisecond of existence is an infinite miracle of chance”

Your friend is the one who knows all about you, and still likes you.”

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.”

Each of us literally chooses, by his way of attending to things, what sort of universe he shall appear to himself to inhabit”

Never suffer an exception to occur till the new habit is securely rooted in your life. Each lapse is like the letting fall of a ball of string which one is carefully winding up; a single slip undoes more than a great many turns will wind again.”

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

When you have to make a choice and don't make it, that is in itself a choice.”

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.”

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.”

Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.”

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”

We don't laugh because we're happy -- we're happy because we laugh.”

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.”

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.”

Not I - not anyone else, can travel that road for you, / You must travel it for yourself.”

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.”

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.”

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.”

I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.”

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.”

Woman reaches love through friendship; man reaches friendship through love”

you are the the master of your fate: you are the captain of your soul”

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.”

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.”

Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”

It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.”

You often meet your fate on the road you take to avoid it”

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.”

Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.”

Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind.”

There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see.”

The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm”

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.”

Imagination is the true magic carpet.”

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.”

There are only two places in the world where time takes precedence over the job to be done. School and prison.”

If everyone could learn that what is right for me does not make it right for anyone else, the world would be a much happier place.”

We Learn . . .
10% of what we read
20% of what we hear
30% of what we see
50% of what we see and hear
70% of what we discuss
80% of what we experience
95% of what we teach others.”

Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you.”