Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

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.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

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

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

It's always too early to quit.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.