Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

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

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

All wealth is the product of labor.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

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

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.