The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

There is always room at the top.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart, and to bring home those who have lost their way.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.