Pay less attention to what you hear about someone, and more to what you learn about them...as you make the effort.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

You will achieve your grand dream, a day at a time, so set goals for each day.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Let your first hour set the theme of success and positive action that is certain to echo through your entire day. Today will never happen again.

I will not allow yesterday's success to lull me into today's complacency, for this is the great foundation of failure.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

In a way it was worth it, she thought, except that it was such a total waste.

Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet...?

New Mexico is an environment where we are open for business.

Disarmed citizens encourage crime and violence. Armed citizens encourage criminals to find a safer line of work.

The observation of nature is part of an artist's life.

There are persons so radiant, so genial, so kind, so pleasure-bearin g, that you instinctively feel in their presence that they do you good; whose coming into a room is like bringing a lamp there.

We have such a finite amount of hours on this planet, and there is just no excuse for living a mundane, predictable life in life.

It is necessary to run risks, to follow certain paths and to abandon others. No one can make a choice without feeling fear.

A Zen master used to say, It is clear and so it is hard to see. A dunce once searched for a fire with a lighted lantern. Had he known what fire was, he could have cooked his rice much sooner.

One's dream is defeated not by unsolvable problems, but by all the more-or-less satisfactory solutions that kill it forever.