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Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

Do your best, and be a little better than you are.

Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal state. Being in love shows a person who he should be.

People usually consider walking on water or in thin air a miracle. But I think the real miracle is not to walk either on water or in thin air, but to walk on earth. Every day we are engaged in a miracle which we don't even recognize: a blue sky, white clouds, green leaves, the black, curious eyes of a child -- our own two eyes. All is a miracle.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment.

Self improvement is masturbation.

Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.

Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

The music industry is a strange combination of having real and intangible assets: pop bands are brand names in themselves, and at a given stage in their careers their name alone can practically gaurantee hit records.

We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect -and I don't live to be- but before you start pointing fingers... make sure you hands are clean!

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.

There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.