“The experienced mountain climber is not intimidated by a mountain – he is inspired by it.”

Our greatest challenge-our greatest opportunity-is found in these words: ‘Choose ye this day.’

Optimists enrich the present, enhance the future, challenge the improbable and attain the impossible.

The adventure of life is to learn.

Everyone has a common, yet unique, responsibility to the future: to make the most of today.

Vow to be valiant. Resolve to be radiant. Determine to be dynamic. Strive to be sincere. Aspire to be attuned.

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

Real optimism is aware of problems but recognizes the solutions.

The more we count the blessings we have, the less we crave the luxuries we haven’t.

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.”

A friend is one who joyfully sings with you when you are on the mountaintop, and silently walks beside you through the valley.

Do more than be fair: be kind.

Men never plan to be failures; they simply fail to plan to be successful.

Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning.

Failure is delay, but not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end street.

Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.

Real optimism sees the negatives but accentuates the positive.

Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.

A flute with no holes is not a flute.

People get upset not because of the adversity they face, but because their adversity reveals who they really are.

Young people all over the world are very frustrated. They are very disillusioned. Many of them are turning their back on religion. They are walking away from the faith of their parents, and most of this is because religion has failed them.

Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.

Learn how to listen as things speak for themselves.

Every picture tells a story, don’t it?

It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.