Mike Wallace

"Your circumstances may be uncongenial, but they shall not long remain so if you but perceive an ideal and strive for it."

"We suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

"The greatest wealth is health."

"Let your life speak for itself."

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened."

"The only prison people live in is the prison of fear."

"Nobody can hurt me without my permission."

"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

"When you have nothing left, you have only yourself, and that is when you truly begin."

"A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor."

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"What matters is not what happens to you, but what you do with what happens to you."

"You don't need to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

"Life is what happens when you're busy making other plans."

"Try to be like the sun for the face of the earth, like a moon and a guide to those who wander in the night."

"The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul."

"The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues."

"Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."

"Do not fear death. Fear a life unlived. Fear an existence spent protecting yourself against the shadow side of life."

"You live as long as you are remembered."

"The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough."

"It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."

"Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it right."

"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree."

"Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."

"Music is the universal language of mankind."

"In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing."

"Technology should improve your life, not become your life."