Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

A cowardly cur barks more fiercely than it bites.

Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.

If you make people laugh too much, their blood becomes - I believe it is acidic as opposed to alkaline. It changes the oxygen level in the blood, and people are likelier to pass out at that point.

Why, he wondered, should he remember her suddenly, on such a day, watching the rain falling on the apple trees?

You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.

The richest and fullest lives attempt to achieve an inner balance between three realms: work, love and play.

Some wounds run too deep for the healing.

Every time you work on a project, it's a little vacation from the project you're working on the other 23 hours. That's the thing - it replenishes you to do something else.

I used to buy good shoes, now I buy good bags. They make me feel more confident.

The natural history of science is the study of the unknown. If you fear it you're not going to study it and you're not going to make any progress.