Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

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.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

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

You got to get it while you can.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Identify your problems but give your power and energy to solutions

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

All wealth is the product of labor.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

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

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

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

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

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

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.