You have to make the rules, not follow them.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.

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.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

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.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

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

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