Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.
"We cannot become who we need to be by remaining who we are."
Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.
If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there.
The right word might be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
Men succeed when they realize that their failures are the preparation for their victories.
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he be at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
After a while you understand the way that things can go wrong in people's lives; you learn all the patterns and the temptations; you recognize the ways people use other people...You don't want to waste the energy, so instead you learn tolerance, and compassion and love - and distance.
So it goes.