Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

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.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Everything you can imagine is real.

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

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

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

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

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.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

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.