Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

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

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

The best way out is always through.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.