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

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.

What I stand for is what I stand on.

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

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

You shape your own destiny.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

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

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

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

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.