It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

I am the lizard king. I can do anything.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.