Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine.

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

You would not ask someone with a broken arm to swim the English Channel, so you cannot demand that the broken to live as if they were whole.

The mind is a vast place and its hungers far sharper than the body's

Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage.

I never knew I was so stupid or so ugly until there was social media.

The feelings which seek expression in words are mostly egotistical, since they seek to express what flatters our self-love and can show us, as we imagine, in the best light.

I utilize myself a lot more fully now. You get older so you have a lot more experience.

Every Christian in every time and place is going to be tempted by certain forms of heresy. I'm sure I'm tempted by my own.

We women shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.

You have to make a joke every 10–15 minutes. It’s a way of keeping up morale.