"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

"Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart."

"Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear."

"Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart."

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."

"There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking."

"I have been bent and broken, but—I hope—into a better shape."

"And the fox said to the little prince: men have forgotten this truth, but you must not forget it. You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed." 

"One's first step in wisdom is to question everything -- and one's last is to come to terms with everything."

"Beware, for I am fearless and therefore powerful."

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian."

"Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration."

"It's been my experience that you can nearly always enjoy things if you make up your mind firmly that you will."

"Your imagination is your preview of life's coming attractions"

"To a father growing old, nothing is dearer than a daughter." 

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

"It's no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then."

"I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship"

"No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience."

"Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door."

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same"

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

"The oldest, shortest words — "yes" and "no" — are those which require the most thought."

"If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the Inquisition might have let him alone."

"A great change in life is like a cold bath in winter — we all hesitate at the first plunge."

"Change your thoughts, and you change your world."

"Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be."

"We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away."

"Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent."

"Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck."

"Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend."

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop"

"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely"

"Education costs money. But then so does ignorance."

"Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs."

"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money."

"I would rather die of passion than of boredom."

"You don't become what you want, you become what you believe."

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."