“When a man learns to love, he must bear the risk of hatred.”

“You need to find a way to live your life, that it doesn’t make a mockery of your values.”

“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.”

“and when all the wars are over, a butterfly will still be beautiful.”

“People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also….but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don’t EVER stop.”

“Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?”

“His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred. Later he became conscious of his damaged wings and of their construction and he learned to think and could not fly any more because the love of flight was gone and he could only remember when it had been effortless.”

“It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.”

“I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.”

“Great leaders can see the greatness in others when they can’t see it themselves and lead them to their highest potential they don’t even know.”

“One of the best ways to influence people is to make them feel important.”

“What other people think and say about you is none of your business. The most destructive thing you would ever do is to believe someone else’s opinion of you. You have to stop letting other people’s opinions control you.”

“Shine your light and make a positive impact on the world; there is nothing so honorable as helping improve the lives of others.”