Our minds are incredibly powerful things.

You don’t have to be happy to smile.

If we live our lives looking for the excitement and exhilaration that change can bring, we will be much happier than when we are eventually forced to accept it anyways.

I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.

An individual who has in his mind that he can accomplish a certain task is far more likely to succeed than the individual that has it in his mind that he will fail.

Ever since I could read, I’ve wanted to write a book. I never thought I had anything to write about. Maybe you don’t think this is worth writing about. But this book isn’t for you. It’s for me.

If we will imagine the thing we want and do our part to “be in the right place at the right time, ” there isn’t anything we can’t do, be, or attain.

Too often, we put up with mediocrity, telling ourselves that later in life we’ll do what we want.

Life has too many disappointments to make room for negativity.

A life spent in fear is not much of a life at all.

I believe that the best advocates of a certain issue are the ones that fully understand both sides

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

Authenticity inspire respect because it takes courage to own who you really are.

It is certainly true that principles cannot be more securely founded than on experience and consciously clear thinking.

Trust is consistently seen as a make or break component of innovation - particularly because the freedom to fail is an important part of innovation.

Shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go forward and not backward. Courage, brethren; and on, on to the victory!

The proverbist knows nothing of the two sides of a question. He knows only the roundness of answers.

The terrible thing is that one cannot be a Communist and not let oneself in for the shameful act of recantation. One cannot be a Communist and preserve an iota of one's personal integrity.

As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.

I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend.