"God is subtle but he is not malicious."

"Happiness cannot be pursued"

"Words save our lives, sometimes."

"You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not."

"I'm not going to limit myself just because people won't accept the fact that I can do something else."

"I'm starting with the man in the mirror,I'm asking him to change his ways;And no message could have been any clearer,If you wanna make the world a better place,Take a look at yourself, and then make a change!"

"A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed."

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

"Am I weird?""Yeah. But so what? Everybody's weird."

"Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

"Millions saw the apple fall, Newton was the only one who asked why?"

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another."

"A path is only a path, and there is no affront, to oneself or to others, in dropping it if that is what your heart tells you . . . Look at every path closely and deliberately. Try it as many times as you think necessary. Then ask yourself alone, one question . . . Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn't it is of no use."

"Consider it: every person you have ever met, every person will suffer the loss of his friends and family. All are going to lose everything they love in this world. Why would one want to be anything but kind to them in the meantime?"

"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop."

"I am the captain of my soul."

"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it."

"In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers."

"Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. Your really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world."

"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

"Being Adam Parrish was a complicated thing, a wonder of muscles and organs, synapses and nerves. He was a miracle of moving parts, a study in survival. The most important thing to Adam Parrish, though, had always been free will, the ability to be his own master.This was the important thing.It had always been the important thing. This was what it was to be Adam."