somebody's boring me; i think it's me.

the value of life lies, not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them: a man may live long, yet live very little. satisfaction in life depends not on the number of your years, but on your will.

a champion is afraid of losing. everyone else is afraid of winning.

we create our fate every day... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.

good health is more than just exercise and diet. it's really a point of view and a mental attitude you have about yourself.

the first step is the hardest.

if we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.

it's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

what cannot be altered must be borne, not blamed.

the human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

faith and doubt both are needed, not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.

when anger spreads through the breast, guard thy tongue from barking idly.

it usually takes two people to make one of them angry.

the curious paradox is that when i accept myself just as i am, then i can change.

i'll not listen to reason. reason is always what someone else has got to say.

the act of acting morally is behaving as if everything we do matters.

success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

the man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small steps.

if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

great minds have purposes, others have wishes.

nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

think wrongly if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.

if you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

the less of routine, the more of life.

we must either find a way, or make one.

wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

fear is nature's warning signal to get busy.

never answer a critic, unless he's right.

the most destructive element in the human mind is fear. fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.

don't ask of your friends what you yourself can do.

our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves.

thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.

if you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.