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

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

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

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

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

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

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

There are only 3 colors, 10 digits, and 7 notes; its what we do with them that's important.

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

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

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

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