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

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

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

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

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

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

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

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

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

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

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.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.