Terence

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

A new day is here. Yesterday is a memory. Tomorrow is unknown. Now is the knowing.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

If you are not personally free to be yourself in that most important of all human activities … the expression of love … then life itself loses its meaning.

All young people, regardless of sexual orientation or identity, deserve a safe and supportive environment in which to achieve their full potential.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

If you want truly to understand something, try to change it.

As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.

Do not judge me by my successes, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.

Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

I gave up the guitar in 1965. Didn’t want to see a guitar. I’d go out and get drunk. When I came out of the heart surgery, the doc said, “Promise me you’ll work hard.” I said, “I thought working hard is what got me here.” He said, “No, working is what will keep you alive.”

When people are in a focused state, the words I can’t,I’ll try,I’ll do it tomorrow,and maybeget forced out of their vocabularies.