Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

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

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

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

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

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

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'

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

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

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

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

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

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

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.