The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.