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

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

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.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

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.

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

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.