We rise to high positions or remain at the bottom because of conditions we can control if we desire to control them.

When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.

Those who succeed in an outstanding way seldom do so before the age of 40. More often, they do not strike their real pace until they are well beyond the age of 50.

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

Find out what you really love to do, and then find a way to make a good living doing it.

The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

The only limitation is that which one sets up in one's own mind.

TELL THE WORLD WHAT YOU INTEND TO DO, BUT FIRST SHOW IT.This is the equivalent of saying "deeds, and not words, are what count most.

Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.

Knowledge has no value except that which can be gained from its application toward some worthy end.

Love is not blind that is the last thing that it is. Love is bound and the more it is bound the less it is blind.

I wondered what it would be like to be just myself all the time, but my self seemed to be far away, and made up of all sorts of things that didn't really exist.

I never violate my oaths or my codes... Only international laws.

The idea of what it is like to lose everything is awful.

Actually," said Jace, "I prefer to think that I'm a liar in a way that's uniquely my own.

There are hopes, the bloom of whose beauty would be spoiled by the trammels of description; too lovely, too delicate, too sacred for words, they should only be known through the sympathy of hearts.

Urban nature is like living with mass conditions. It sometimes feels like a myth & you are its scribe.

I've always thought that bartenders and hairstylists would be great interrogators because all day long they have to listen to people talk. They could probably make some fugitive spill the beans.

It is an age of stir and change, a season of new wine and old bottles. Yet, assuredly, in spite of breakages and waste, a wine worth the drinking is all the time being made.

The task confronting contemporary man is to live with the hidden ground of his activities as familiarly as our literate predecessors lived with the figure minus ground.