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.

You shape your own destiny.

They alone live, who live for others.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.