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

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

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

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

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

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

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

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

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

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

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