"Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions."

— Dalai Lama

"Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands."

— Anne Frank

"You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame."

— Erica Jong

"You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed."

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

— Abraham Lincoln

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot."

— Michael Altshuler

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

— Diane von Furstenberg

"The future depends on what you do today."

— Mahatma Gandhi

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."

— J.R.R. Tolkien

"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves."

— William Shakespeare

"You can't hire someone to practice for you."

— Al Bernstein

"The most valuable of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it has to be done, whether you like it or not."

— Aldous Huxley