Our trials, our sorrows, and our grieves develop us.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Weak men wait for opportunities; strong men make them.

Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.

The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

The golden rule for every business man is this: 'Put yourself in your customer's place.'

What keeps so many people back is simply unwillingness to pay the price, to make the exertion, the effort to sacrifice their ease and comfort.

When you give up, you are giving others control of your destiny.When you choose not to give up, you take control of your destiny.

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things

Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you're doing something virtuous.

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.

Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.

We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.

As you shift and change your own experience, the experience of the whole human race begins to shift and change as well. So this is important work you are doing, this business of changing your life.

It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way.

The path of the pursuer and the prey often run obscurely parallel.