The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

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

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

How long should you try? Until.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

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.

All thinking men are atheists.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

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.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

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