“Growth is often a painful process.”

Anyone who idolizes you is going to hate you when he discovers that you are fallible. He never forgives. He has deceived himself, and he blames you for it.

A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience.

Wise Man: One who sees the storm coming before the clouds appear.

What people need and what they want may be very different.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

A man who marries a woman to educate her falls victim to the same fallacy as the woman who marries a man to reform him.

Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.

Man’s greatest blunder has been in trying to make peace with the skies instead of making peace with his neighbors.

There is something that is much more scarce, something finer far, something rarer than ability. It is the ability to recognize ability.

Most people like hard work, particularly when they’re paying for it.

Make two grins grow where there was only a grouch before.

The valuable person in any business is the individual who can and will cooperate with others.

Freedom cannot be bestowed – it must be achieved.

One can endure sorrow alone, but it takes two to be glad.

Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent – the power to do the right thing the first time.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

I like to cook Puerto Rican food. That’s what I grew up on: rice, beans, meat, some Italian-American food. I know my way around the kitchen.

Everybody grows but me.

Blood and tears are going to be our lot, whether we like them or not. Our blood and tears will flow; maybe the parched soil of India needs them so that the fine flower of freedom may grow again.

It is not your duty or responsibility to change the minds of other people. The nature of their thinking is advanced or limited by their experience. In your presence, they have an opportunity to learn about you and, perhaps, to grow.

What we give our attention to, grows.

We can grow so accustomed to being spoon-fed the Word of God that we sometimes forget how to examine the Scriptures for ourselves.

Loving yourself has nothing to do with being selfish, self-centered or self-engrossed. It means that you accept yourself for what you are. Loving yourself means that you accept responsibility for your own development, growth and happiness.

Challenges come so we can grow and be prepared for things we are not equipped to handle now.