Perhaps the things that break our hearts are the very things that serve to open them.

Saying that you don’t have time to improve your thoughts and your life is like saying you don’t have time to stop for gas because you’re too busy driving. Eventually it will catch up with you.

It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life

So take the time to think. Discover your real reason for being here and then have the courage to act on it.

When you most feel like giving up is when you most need to be keeping on.

And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we actually come to believe they are true.

I don't think about what I'll get from someone else. Instead, all I care about is what I can give. And that, my friend, has made me a very happy man.