If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

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

Everything you can imagine is real.

All thinking men are atheists.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

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

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.