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

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

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.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were, but without it we go nowhere.