Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

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

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

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

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

If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be one nation gone under.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.