When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.
Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
Doing what you love is the cornerstone of having abundance in your life.
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!
What I stand for is what I stand on.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.
Things may come to those who wait but only the things left by those who hustle.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.