If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
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.
The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.
Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.
The time is always right to do the right thing
You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.
I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.
Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.
Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...
If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.
A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
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
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.