Wherever you are, whatever your circumstances may be, whatever misfortune you may have suffered, the music of your life has not gone. It's inside you - if you listen to it, you can play it.

Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Winners compare their achievements with their goals, while losers compare their achievements with those of other people.

A decision is made with the brain. A commitment is made with the heart. Therefore, a commitment is much deeper and more binding than a decision

Success doesn't come to you; you must go to it. The trail is well traveled. If you want to walk it, you can.

You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.

If what you're working for really matters, you'll give it all you've got.

The process of growing and learning always involves risk.

Hatred is the most destructive force on earth. It does the most damage to those who harbor it.

Goal-setting illuminates the road to success just as runway lights illuminate the landing field for an incoming aircraft

Every prayer is a wish fulfilled in due time.

A few fires flickered, plumes of dark smoke marring the ruby sky.

There is a huge difference between gathering intelligence in foreign countries, even our allies, and secretly getting information on U.S. citizens.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother.

To discover, or recover, the sense of religious certainty one must worship.

The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.

I don’t care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don’t matter to me.

If you could avoid all your mistakes, you'd miss everything you learned from them.

What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.