You got to get it while you can.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

All wealth is the product of labor.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

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

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Ideas come from everything

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.