If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

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

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

I am the captain of my soul.

All wealth is the product of labor.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

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.

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

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

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

It's always too early to quit.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.