Never wrestle with a pig. You both get dirty and the pig enjoys it. |

A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself. |

The world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it. |

Loneliness is a sign you are in desperate need of yourself. |

These mountains you were carrying, you were only supposed to climb. |

Never wish them pain. That's not who you are. If they caused you pain, they must have pain inside. Wish them healing. That's what they need. |

Only when I allowed myself to feel the emotions pent up for so long inside me did I start extricating myself from my own past. |

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others. |

But for the poor of a country where corruption thieved a great deal of opportunity, corruption was one of the genuine opportunities that remained. |

Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you. |

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. |

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. |

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once. |

Don't handicap your children by making their lives easy. |

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody's power and is not easy. |

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. |

You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. |

No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous. |

If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair. |

This feeling of discomfort you have: If you can live with it your entire life, you’ll be unusually successful. Because you have to survive somehow. For those of you on autopilot, you don’t have to work that hard. That’s why I’ve changed fields a lot, because once I know how to do something, I lose interest. And you don’t grow. So I’d say it’s good you don’t fit in. |

Be brave, my heart. Plant your feet and square your shoulders to the enemy. Meet him among the man-killing spears. Hold your ground. In victory, do not brag; in defeat, do not weep. |

We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. |

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. |

Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember. |