Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

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

Everything you can imagine is real.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.