Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.
Greatness can be contagious, but first there must be contact.
Manners and politeness will never become old-fashioned.
It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.
Be nice to people... maybe it'll be unappreciated, unreciprocated, or ignored, but spread the love anyway. We rise by lifting others.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.
Angry is always hungry to cook guilty.
Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.
Books are keys that open many doors.
Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality...