You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

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

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

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

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

When I was in college, I wanted to be involved in things that would change the world.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.