“We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements.”

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind.

Your success is not measured in terms of what all you obtained but in term of what you become, how you live and what actions you do. Upon this point reflect well and attain great happiness

Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle.

Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything.

We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

There is no end to the power a man can obtain.

Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else.

Real love is love for love’s sake. I do not ask health or money or life or salvation.

If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

The earth is enjoyed by heroes”- this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.

Real freedom is not merely doing what you like, but also NOT doing what you like.

Onward, my brave boys – money or no money – men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible.

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.

None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress.

If you are determined and confident, there is nothing in this great existence that can stop you from achieving what you want.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

I just keep surprising myself, I guess.

You’ve got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.

I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting.

This is my career highlight. Getting to the fourth round in the U.S. Open in my first year in the U.S. Open and first year on the tour.