"The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger."

"Don't do what you want. Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want. Do the things that scare you the most."

"Who you are moment to moment is just a story."

"Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life."

"The one you love and the one who loves you are never, ever the same person."

"If you could be God's worst enemy or nothing, which would you choose?"

"Practice, the master of all things."

"A mind stretched by a new idea can never go back to its original dimensions."

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

"Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can."

"But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."

"Let arms give place to the robe, and the laurel of the warriors yield to the tongue of the orator."