It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

Ideas come from everything

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

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

To See a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

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

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.

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

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.