First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

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.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

I am the captain of my soul.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

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

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

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

Make today worth remembering.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life. Both life and death are parts of the same Great Adventure.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.