Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Above all things, respect yourself.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

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

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.