Never hold resentments for the person who tells you what you need to hear; count them among your truest, most caring, and valuable friends.
The bittersweet about truth is that nothing could be more hurtful, yet nothing could be more helpful.
For a man who walks in the light, to stay humble is not to walk in the dark; you don’t need to project yourself to be thought an honest man.
The nostalgia of a moment’s love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.
The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don’t die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.
Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.
The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world.
Beethoven said that it’s better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn.
It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.
Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.
Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.
So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.
Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.
When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow.