Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

You shape your own destiny.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

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

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

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

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

What I stand for is what I stand on.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.