To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit gate.

Many great failures lead to the ultimate success

Good luck in a way is bad luck not occurring, but the world wants stories of how bad luck happened, and how good luck played a savior.

If it's a nod from society you're looking for, run a marathon. But if it's a life-changing experience of personal strength and perseverance that you want, finish an ultra.

What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.

Even now I am full of hope but the end lies in God.

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity.

She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.

I'm the guy that's trying to break up that monopoly to introduce free enterprise and competition to the energy sector.