The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

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

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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

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

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.