Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

Focus on where you want to go, not on what you fear.

All thinking men are atheists.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Freedom and independence form my character.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

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

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

Always do what you are afraid to do.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.