Words worth keeping

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Well-behaved women seldom make history.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it--always.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

Do what you feel in your heart to be right – for you’ll be criticized anyway.

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

[...]the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes “Awww!

Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Hold fast to dreams,For if dreams dieLife is a broken-winged bird,That cannot fly.

Peace begins with a smile..

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. (...) You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you'll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.