Everything you can imagine is real.

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

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

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

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

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

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Freedom and independence form my character.

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

All wealth is the product of labor.

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

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.