If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

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

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.

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

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

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

One man with courage is a majority.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

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

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

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

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.