Spirit

"It is so easy for your people to forget that everything has a spirit, that all are equal. That magic and mystery are a part of your lives, not something to store away in a child's bedroom, or to use as an escape from your lives."


"There is real magic in enthusiasm.
It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment."

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try.'"

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."
"It is never too late to be what you might have been."
"Never, never, never, never give up."

"Under the skin, intense fires burn."

Ambition & Vital Living"Be not afraid of greatness: some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

"I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy."

"Don't look to other people's stories; live your own."

"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor."

"A vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done."

"What you can do, or dream you can do, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

"A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

"If there's anything half so much fun as being alive, I'd like to know what it is!"

"When I think about it, life has always been kind of absurd."

"To live is so startling, it leaves little time for anything else!"

"As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death."

"Follow your bliss. ... If you follow your bliss, you put yourself on the kind of track that has been there the whole while, waiting for you, and the life you ought to be living is the one you are living."


"Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past."


"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

"Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep."

"If you ignore the rules people will, half the time, quietly rewrite them so that they don't apply to you."

"Live long and prosper."


"In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking."