No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

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

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

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

Make today worth remembering.

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

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

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

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Above all things, respect yourself.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

You shape your own destiny.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.