Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

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

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

Know thyself.

I am the captain of my soul.

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

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

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.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

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

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.