If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.

I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or the unseen world, but directly from life.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

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

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

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

If you can't you must, and if you must you can.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

Whatever you are, be a good one.