Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

If you can dream it, you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started with a dream and a mouse.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Freedom and independence form my character.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Everything you can imagine is real.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

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

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

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