Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

You shape your own destiny.

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

They alone live, who live for others.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

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

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

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

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

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

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.