“You were not born a winner, and you were not born a loser. You are what you make yourself be.”

“Home was not the place where you were born but the place you created yourself, where you did not need to explain, where you finally became what you were.”

“Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think”

“You were born as an ordinary human, but make sure you die as an extraordinary human”

“Then there is this idea that the world owes you a living. Here is a little thought about that. It isn't particularly logical but it makes my point. You were paid when you were born, with the privilege of living. Death is all that is coming to you. Life came to you when you were born.”

“Its important to know stories. I felt the earth shift to make a place for you when you were born, and I came to tell you stories while you are young. And like me, you were born with a word on your tongue.”

“"Naturally," observed Nikolai Petrovich, "you were born here, so everything is bound to strike you with a special —""Really, Daddy, it makes absolutely no difference where a person is born.""Still —""No, it makes no difference at all."”

“No matter how far you go, don't ever forget where you came from. You were born there for a reason, so make sure to return and change the world”

“You're born, you know, the wrong names, wrong parents. I mean, that happens. You call yourself what you want to call yourself. This is the land of the free.”

“Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land.”