Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal.

People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Respect is earned, Honesty is appreciated. Trust is gained. Loyalty is returned.

Where would I be had I not believed I was incompetent?

You have to have faith that there is a reason you go through certain things. I can't say I'm glad to go through pain, but in a way one must, in order to gain courage and really feel joy.

We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.

I know a man who, when he saw a woman of striking beauty, praised the Creator for her. The sight of her lit within him the love of God.

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America.

I have no clan, nor any rank. I am unique.

The most fertile districts of the habitable globe are now actually cultivated by men for animals, at a delay and waste of aliment absolutely incapable of calculation

You might like it as a joke or because you liked it then, but there isn't a whole new generation discovering Wham!.

We need to fund No Child Left Behind. We need to start at the beginning and we are not doing the job here in the United States of America.