Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

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

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

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

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

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.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

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

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?