You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.

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

All thinking men are atheists.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

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

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

Only when I fall do I get up again.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

United we stand; divided we fall.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

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