Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

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

Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!

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

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

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

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

One man with courage is a majority.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.