"Live out of your imagination instead of out of your memory." 

The fact is, discipline is only punishment when imposed on you by someone else. When you discipline yourself, it's not punishment but empowerment. 

Too many of us never realize our full potential because our fears block us. 

When you're strong enough and confident enough to speak the truth, you gain respect and influence. Being honest and straightforward will also open doors for you. 

“A thing of beauty is a job forever.” 

“I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.” 

“If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.” 

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

“the truth is never horrible, only interesting.”

“An appreciative listener is always stimulating.”

How to succeed? Try hard enough.

The art of conversation lies in listening.

When things are bad, we take comfort in the thought that they could always get worse. And when they are, we find hope in the thought that things are so bad they have to get better.

Elected leaders who forget how they got there won't the next time.

If you expect nothing, you're apt to be surprised. You'll get it.

The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

The best vision is insight.

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it, you do it well, and there's no success if you don't do well what you're working at.

“Love is omni-inclusive, progressively exquisite, understanding and compassionately attuned to other than self.”

“For a society is always most cruel to those who disclose and reveal its secrets, when through dishonesty society itself has outraged Nature.”

"Forget trying to be sexy. That's just gruesome."

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

'Nice' means nothing. Is it someone who doesn't swear and shout? I swear and shout. 'Nice' sounds ineffectual.