“Without a struggle, there can be no progress.” 

“If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” 

“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” 

“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.”

No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.”

“Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.

“Nothing in the world is ever completely wrong. Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

“We have to stop and be humble enough to understand that there is something called mystery.”

“No, I never saw an angel, but it is irrelevant whether I saw one or not. I feel their presence around me.”

“I’ve done everything I wanted to do, even if I have had to pay a very high price – which has been the case most of the time.”

“When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream.”

“Let us be absolutely clear about one thing: we must not confuse humility with false modesty or servility.”

“Now that she had nothing to lose, she was free.”

“Making a decision was only the beginning of things. When someone makes a decision, he is really diving into a strong current that will carry him to places he had never dreamed of when he first made the decision.”

“There is only one way to learn. It’s through action. Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey.”

“People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them.”

“I’m not a body with a soul, I’m a soul that has a visible part called the body.”

“No matter how you feel today, get up, dress up and show up.”

“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.” 

“The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take the risk of living out their dreams – each according to his or her own talent.”

“The most important experiences we can have are those that take us to the very limit. That is the only way we learn, because it requires all our courage.” 

“Those who never take risks can only see other people’s failures.”

“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and make sure you know exactly what it is you want. No one can hit their target with their eyes closed.”

“Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose – and commit myself to – what is best for me.”