A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

You got to get it while you can.

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

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

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

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

All wealth is the product of labor.

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

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

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

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

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

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.