“You can do anything you set your mind to.”

Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it.

Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away.

We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

For the best return on your money, pour your purse into your head.

There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

If Passion drives, let Reason hold the Reins.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

When you’re testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Many people die at twenty five and aren’t buried until they are seventy five.

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.

When you are finished changing, you’re finished.

You have to have the capacity and the ability to take what people did, and how they did it, and forgive them and move on.

No one can have everything, so you have to try for what you want most.

Lead from the back – and let others believe they are in front.

There is no solution; seek it lovingly.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Read. Travel. Read. Ask. Read. Learn. Read. Connect. Read.

Your life will become better by making other lives better.

Today is always here,’ said Sethe. ‘Tomorrow, never.