“Make the most of yourself for that is all there is of you.”

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The good news is that the moment you decide that what you know is more important than what you have been taught to believe, you will have shifted gears in your quest for abundance. Success comes from within, not from without.

A child is a curly, dimpled lunatic.

Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Be good to your work, your word, and your friend.

Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up.

We are always getting ready to live but never living.

Every wall is a door.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

There’s no job too immense, when you got confidence.

Do you want to know who you are? Don’t ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Stay confident even when something bad happens. It is just a bump in the road. It will pass.

Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.

I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I’ll rise!

One accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.