"Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past."

"You can't always judge people by the things they done. You got to judge them by what they are doing now."

"[BURR]I am the one thing in life I can control."

"All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why."

"What we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are — and who we will become."

"As long as you have life and breath, believe. Believe for those who cannot. Believe even if you have stopped believing. Believe for the sake of the dead, for love, to keep your heart beating, believe. Never give up, never despair, let no mystery confound you into the conclusion that mystery cannot be yours."

"Always tell what you feel. Do what you think..."

"Know from whence you came. If you know whence you came, there are absolutely no limitations to where you can go."

"Your own positive future begins in this moment. All you have is right now. Every goal is possible from here."

"If every life is a river, then it's little wonder that we do not even notice the changes that occur until we are far out in the darkest sea. One day you look around and nothing is familiar, not even your own face. My name once meant daughter, grandaughter, friend, sister, beloved. Now those words mean only what their letters spell out; Star in the night sky. Truth in the darkness.I have crossed over to a place where I never thought I'd be. I am someone I would have never imagined. A secret. A dream. I am this, body and soul. Burn me. Drown me. Tell me lies. I will still be who I am."

"Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."

"It is better to be respected than it is to be popular. Popularity ends on yearbook day, but respect lasts forever."

"How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary."

"Somebody has to start. Somebody has to step forward and do what is right, because it is right."

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night."

"The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours."

"I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage, reputation, outward success of money, and remain unhappy and neurotic even when they have attained what they were seeking. Such people are usually confined within too narrow a spiritual horizon. Their life has not sufficient content, sufficient meaning. If they are enabled to develop into more spacious personalities, the neurosis generally disappears."

"The pessimist resembles a man who observes with fear and sadness that his wall calendar, from which he daily tears a sheet, grows thinner with each passing day. On the other hand, the person who attacks the problems of life actively is like a man who removes each successive leaf from his calendar and files it neatly and carefully away with its predecessors, after first having jotted down a few diary notes on the back. He can reflect with pride and joy on all the richness set down in these notes, on all the life he has already lived to the fullest. What will it matter to him if he notices that he is growing old? Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over his own lost youth? What reasons has he to envy a young person? For the possibilities that a young person has, the future which is in store for him?No, thank you,' he will think. 'Instead of possibilities, I have realities in my past, not only the reality of work done and of love loved, but of sufferings bravely suffered. These sufferings are even the things of which I am most proud, although these are things which cannot inspire envy."

"God save us from religion."

"In the end you can't always choose what to keep. You can only choose how you let it go."

"The sky is the limit... for some people aim higher nothing is impossible."

"What hurts us is what heals us"