What matters is the value we've created in our lives, the people we've made happy and how much we've grown as people.

Books have to be read... but that does not mean they are an inferior form of experience.

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.

This is the real secret of life -- to be completely engaged with what you are doing in the here and now. And instead of calling it work, realize it is play.

I wish to be the instrument of my own, not other men's, acts of will.

No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn.

Your success is not limited by your past mistakes; it's empowered by your ability to learn from them.