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

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.

Everything you can imagine is real.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

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

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

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

All thinking men are atheists.

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

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true