The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Freedom and independence form my character.

I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

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

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

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

Only when I fall do I get up again.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

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

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.