No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite. — Nelson Mandela

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I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

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The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

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If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.

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Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. — William James

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I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer. ― Neil deGrasse Tyson

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Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.

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