What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday and our present thoughts build our life tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind.

We weren't put here by the universe to attempt a "good" life.
It is not merely for the pursuit of satisfaction that we live with beating heart and yearning soul.
We have never been destined to play it safe...
for we were meant to burn.

In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."

Nobody can make you feel inferior with your consent.

Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run it is easier.

Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one. You cannot make any useful contribution in life unless you do this.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't.

Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

It was so much easier to blame it on Them. It was bleakly depressing to think that They were Us. If it was Them, then nothing was anyone's fault. If it was Us, what did that make Me? After all, I'm one of Us. I must be. I've certainly never thought of myself as one of Them. No One ever thinks of themselves as one of Them. We're always one of Us. It's Them that do the bad things.