Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

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

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble