"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

"None but ourselves can free our minds."

"It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat."

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow; but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing."

"Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

"When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

"If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

"And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about."

"I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.(Popular misquote of "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.")"

"Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it."

"Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the worst kind of suffering."

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.."

"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional."

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see."

"It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world."

"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

"Always do what you are afraid to do."

"You can talk with someone for years, everyday, and still, it won't mean as much as what you can have when you sit in front of someone, not saying a word, yet you feel that person with your heart, you feel like you have known the person for forever.... connections are made with the heart, not the tongue."