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

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Everything you can imagine is real.

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

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.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

When I give, I give myself.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

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

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

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

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

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

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.