It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

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

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

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

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.