Happiness is the art of relaxation.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

To change a habit, make a conscious decision, then act out the new behavior.

Within you right now is the power to do things you never dreamed possible.

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.

A human being always acts and feels and performs in accordance with what he imagines to be true about himself and his environment.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

The biggest secret of self-esteem is this: Begin to appreciate other people more; show respect for any human being merely because he is a child of God and therefore a thing of value.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

In war, our elders may give the orders...but it is the young who have to fight.

If you can't do, you had best shut up.

Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.

And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.

But it was like wearing a size five sneakers when your foot is a seven- you can get by for a few steps, and then you set down and pull off the shoes because it just plain much

I grew up in the sort of cultural milieu that always regarded conversations about the political discourse as tremendously low-brow.

You gotta live life. You gotta enjoy life. I mean, I don't live on the edge.

To fine that light within--that's the genius of poetry.

Man is the only creature whose emotions are entangled with his memory.

I'm not as thrilled with myself as I used to be.