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.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

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

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.

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