Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

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

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Good thoughts bear good fruit, bad thoughts bear bad fruit.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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

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

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

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on