I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn’t sit for a month.

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

We hardly ever realize that we can cut anything out of our lives, anytime, in the blink of an eye.

We are all one family in the world. Building a community that empowers everyone to attain their full potential through each of us respecting each other's dignity, rights and responsibilities makes thee world a better place to live.

The spirit of self-help is the root of all genuine growth in the individual; and, exhibited in the lives of many, it continues the true source of national vigor and strength. Help from without is often enfeebling in its effects, but help from within invariably invigorates.

We all walk in the dark and each of us must learn to turn on his or her own light.

In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

I never encounter anything except my responsibility.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Success. Four flights Thursday morning. All against twenty-one mile winds. Started from level with engine power alone. Average speed through air thirty-one miles. Longest fifty-nine seconds.

It is far better to be exhausted from success than to be rested from failure.