Opportunity arises when a seemingly impossible task is met with an improbable solution.

True happiness comes when you give your best in something beyond yourself.

Hope is a gift we give ourselves in our darkest despair.

A single thread of hope is stronger than all the chains that bind you.

I have come face to face with many truths from the past that had to be revised with present knowledge.

Failure, loss and defeat are just mile markers on the road to success.

There is no greater success as when you turn your enemy into your ally.

Success comes not from having certainty, but being able to live with uncertainty.

Success involves avoiding the lure of making excuses.

Success involves going to where others believe is too far.

An attitude of gratitude increases abundance and diminishes fear.

I’ll make a swing so I can reach the places I can’t reach yet.

My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.

Freedom is an expensive gift always worth fighting for. Even if it costs us!

A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing.

Find, if you can, in what you cannot change. Manners with fortunes, humours turn with climes, Tenets with books, and principles with times.

Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud.

Death is a grave mistake! Physical immortality takes forever. It is the only cause that you can't die for.

It is neither fair nor unfair, Nobody Owens. It simply is

I'm just impressed when someone can capture all the crazy beauty of the light that is all around us. It's amazing to me. I don't consider myself a photographer, but I really want to get into it.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness.