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Right action is when the right people do the right thing for the right reasons at the right time. That about sums up success! 
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. 
Man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all 
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world 
The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes 
When you reach the heart of life you shall find beauty in all things, even in the eyes that are blind to beauty 
The greatest stories are those that resonate our beginnings and intuit our endings, our mysterious origins and our numinous destinies, and dissolve them both into one 
If you believe you can, you probably can. If you believe you won't, you most assuredly won't. Belief is the ignition switch that gets you off the launching pad 
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. 
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all. 
The main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand 
Don't worry about anything. Worrying never solved anything. All it does is distort your mind. 
We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve. 
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. 
Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength. 
Enthusiasm is: A quiet spiritual strength: An inner glow: Faith in action: Greatest asset in the world: Beats money power influence: Tramples over prejudice 
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, because environment is the mental feeding ground out of which the food that goes into our minds is extracted. 
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. 
No matter how old we become, we can still call them 'Holy Mother' and 'Father' and put a child-like trust in them. 
Lack of activity destroys the good condition of every human being, while movement and methodical physical exercise save it and preserve it. 
He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven. 
Every job is a self portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence. 
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? 
More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the worse. 
A mathematician is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat which isn't there 
Ideas not coupled with action never become bigger than the brain cells they occupied. 
A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it. 
Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music. 
Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. 
Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door. 
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears: they cannot utter the one, nor will they utter the other. 
The love of one's country is a splendid thing. But why should love stop at the border? 
Most of my photos are grounded in people, I look for the unguarded moment, the essential soul peeking out, experience etched on a persons face. 
I think science has enjoyed an extraordinary success because it has such a limited and narrow realm in which to focus its efforts. Namely, the physical universe. 
Approach the game with no preset agendas and you'll probably come away surprised at your overall efforts. 
Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders. 
Education is the guardian genius of democracy. It is the only dictator that free men recognize, and the only ruler that free men require. 
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. 
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise. 
Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the woman. 
The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. 
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. 
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. 
