“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose ... not the one you began with perhaps, but one you'll be glad to remember.”

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I am permitted to hold for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.”

“Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.”

“If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. ”

“Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. ”

“There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.”

“If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover those precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control. ”

“Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true. ”

“The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. ”

“Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do.”

“I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”

“Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.”

“We must always have old memories and young hopes.”

“Whatever necessity lays upon thee, endure; whatever she commands, do.”

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”

“You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.”

“Never get tired of doing little things for others. Sometimes, those little things occupy the biggest part of their hearts.”

“Hope is that thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words and never stops... at all. ”

“Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though t'were his own.”

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”

“Our attitude towards what has happened to us in life is the important thing to recognize. Once hopeless, my life is now hope-full, but it did not happen overnight. The last of human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, is to choose one's own way.”

“Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.”

“Our very lives depend on the ethics of strangers, and most of us are always strangers to other people.”

“The path to our destination is not always a straight one. We go down the wrong road, we get lost, we turn back. Maybe it doesn't matter which road we embark on. Maybe what matters is that we embark. ”

“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”

“The only way you can truly control how you are seen is being honest all the time.”

“A good leader inspires others with confidence in him; a great leader inspires them with confidence in themselves. ”

“Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience.”

“How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.”

“How can we expect our children to know and experience the joy of giving unless we teach them that the greater pleasure in life lies in the art of giving rather than receiving.”

“Reflect upon your blessings, of which every man has plenty, not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.”

“There are four questions of value in life... What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love. [from Don Juan DeMarco (1994)]”