If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

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

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

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

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Be yourself, let you come through.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

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

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

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

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.