I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

We're lost, but we're making good time

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

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

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

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

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.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

The best way out is always through.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

Everything you can imagine is real.