Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. |

People love change when they know it is a good thing. No one gives back a winning lottery ticket. What people resist is not change per se, but loss. |

Anthropologists say that in every culture in history, children have played the game hide and seek. |

Most people think their experiences show them who they are, not what they have chosen. They do not know they have the ability to shape their experiences like a potter shapes clay. You are the artist and you are also the art that is being created. You choose the colours, where to add and remove clay, and you determine whether the art will be dark and depressing or light and joyful. There is no limit to your creative capacity. |

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. |

For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them. |

The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave.  |

Watch what you believe because your beliefs have a way of becoming your reality. |

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: it took us 5000 years to put wheels on our luggage. |

If I only have a hammer, I treat all problems as though they were a nail. |

Any teacher who can be replaced by a machine, should be. |

Ultimately, man should not ask what the meaning of his life is, but rather must recognize that it is he who is asked. In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life |

Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way. |

Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. |

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. |

Give a man a mask, and he’ll show you his true face. |

“If there is a God, he will have to beg for my forgiveness.” |

No man ever listened himself out of a job. |

If we judge ourselves only by our aspirations and everyone else only their conduct we shall soon reach a very false conclusion. |

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm. |

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. |

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it. |

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent. |

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now. |