You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.
Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between.
Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.
Youthful cynicism is sad to observe, because it indicates not so much knowledge learned from bitter experiences as insufficient trust even to attempt the future.
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may tread me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.
You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise.
You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
You may encounter many defeats, but you just must never be defeated.
You fail, you get up and try again.
You don’t have to think about doing the right thing. If you’re for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.
You can’t get too high for somebody to bring you down.
You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, “I forgive. I’m finished with it.”
