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

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

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

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

All thinking men are atheists.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.