Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

To see things in the seed, that is genius.

To free us from the expectations of others, to give us back to ourselves there lies the great, singular power of self-respect.

Your goals should be so big that they scare you a little and excite you a lot.

There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one that is most adaptable to change.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men.