Trying to get without first giving is as fruitless as trying to reap without having sown.

A quitter never wins and a winner never quits.

A goal is a dream with a deadline.

Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.

Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

The number one reason people fail in life is because they listen to their friends, family, and neighbors.

Keep your mind fixed on what you want in life: not on what you don't want.

A positive mind finds a way it can be done; a negative mind looks for all the ways it can't be done.

I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.

A blunt arrow in the air has greater potential to strike than a sharp one in a quiver.

The work of fate is a mystery

I’d wanted emotion but couldn’t find it here, so I settled for motion.

Formula for failure: Try to please everybody.

Keep one thing in view forever- the truth; and if you do this, though it may seem to lead you away from the opinion of men, it will assuredly conduct you to the throne of God.

Why are some people born with a fire in the belly, while others need something to get their pilot light lit?

Who becomes you? No one. No one should become me. When I die, I don't want my body or soul inhabited. I wouldn't wish me on anyone.

No city invites the heart to come to life as San Francisco does. Arrival in San Francisco is an experience in living.