“Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.”

Become someone’s hero.

Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.

Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

If you’re doing your best, you won’t have any time to worry about failure.

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.

Read carefully anything that requires your signature. Remember the big print giveth and the small print taketh away.

A true friend encourages us, comforts us, supports us like a big easy chair, offering us a safe refuge from the world.

Ask yourself if you would feel comfortable giving your two best friends a key to your house. If not, look for some new best friends.

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins, not through strength but by perseverance.

I’ve learned that every great achievement was once considered impossible

Remember that everyone is influenced by kindness.

Keep a note pad and pencil on your bedside table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at 3 A.M.

Remember that the biggest gap in the world is between ‘I should’ and ‘I did.’

Judge your success by the degree that you’re enjoying peace, health, and love.

Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

If I am only happy for myself, many fewer chances for happiness. If I am happy when good things happen to other people, billions more chances to be happy!

The next time you encounter a difficult obstacle or problem, you should smile and say, Here’s my chance to grow.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.

We are not trying to entertain the critics. I’ll take my chances with the public.

If you don’t design your own life plan, chances are you’ll fall into someone else’s plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.

Chance favors the prepared mind. The more you practice, the luckier you become.

Take a chance, because you never know how perfect something can turn out.