Every wall is a door.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

Sometimes we look back and 10 years from now we think, ‚Boy, those were great old days.‘ Well, you know, we’re living in the good old days.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That’s relativity.

There is no education like adversity.

In the day of prosperity be joyful, but in the day of adversity consider.

As a man sow, shall he reap. and I know that talk is cheap. But the heat of the battle is as sweet as the victory.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

Yesterday’s weirdness is tomorrow’s reason why.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Every day we have plenty of opportunities to get angry, stressed or offended. But what you’re doing when you indulge these negative emotions is giving something outside yourself power over your happiness. You can choose to not let little things upset you.

Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

History is more or less bunk.

All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.

Never complain. Never explain.

There is no man on Earth or devil in Hell who can keep you from the very best God put in you.

When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you… Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion, and you know it can happen to you.

Life is our dictionary.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

Faith is the complete reliance on the power and goodness of Spirit and the firm belief that you are always connected to this goodness. Always affirm your faith and not your doubt.

If only the people who worry about their liabilities would think about the riches they do possess, they would stop worrying.

The great thing about America is that you can come from the worst circumstances and become something remarkable.

Mirth is like a flash of lightning, that breaks through a gloom of clouds, and glitters for a moment; cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Nobody enjoys the ‚little show about nothing‘ humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well – even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else’s ideas of who you can or can’t become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a ‚Keep Out‘ sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.

I, personally, think there is a really danger of taking food too seriously. Food should be part of the bigger picture.

No one but a fool is always right.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone.

There are millions of Americans outside Washington who are tired of stale political arguments and are moving this country forward. They believe, and I believe, that here in America, our success should depend not on accident of birth, but the strength of our work ethic and the scope of our dreams.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclined.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

Everything that exists is in a manner the seed of that which will be.

Fun is one of the most important – and underrated – ingredients in any successful venture. If you’re not having fun, then it’s probably time to call it quits and try something else.

We were born to die and we die to live. As seedlings of God, we barely blossom on earth; we fully flower in heaven.

As more airlines consolidated and grew larger and more focused on the bottom line, flying in the U.S. became an awful experience. Despite moves to block our airline from flying, Virgin America began service in August 2007 – with the goal of making flying good again.

In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

The more sand has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

A shady business never yields a sunny life.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won’t presume to probe into the faults of others.

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

No driver is perfect.