Failure is a trickster with a keen sense of irony and cunning. It takes great delight in tripping one when success is almost within reach.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

In your trembling touch of love, I lost my past, present, and future.

I think there are lots of ways of leading very good lives and growing spiritually. This process of growth goes on whether we believe it or not.

She knew that it was better to have a dream and pay a price for it than to be lukewarm. - regarding St. Teresa of Avila

Some criticism, no doubt, is constructive, but too much is a subtle poison.

To-day belongs to me, To-morrow who can tell.

Always focus on accomplishments rather than activities.

If you're co-founder or CEO, you have to do all kinds of tasks you might not want to do. If you don't do your chores, the company won't succeed. No task is too menial.

I have unlearned contempt; it is a sin that is engendered earliest in the soul, and doth beset it like a poison worm feeding on all its beauty.

The danger of any new party at a time of disillusion with the old parties, is that it becomes all things to all men.

But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.