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

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

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

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.