Words worth keeping

Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.

The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

If you don't know where you're going, any road'll take you there

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

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

Death ends a life, not a relationship.

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

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.