We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.

Aloha is free.

I am not remotely interested in just being good.

Have to and get to—both are choices. One is negative and one is positive. Choose the right one and it can change your life.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you are not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

What though strength fails? Boldness is certain to win praise. In mighty enterprises, it is enough to have had the determination.

So it is more useful to watch a man in time of peril, and in adversity to discern what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask it torn off, reality remains.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves . . . But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

Old age is no place for sissies.

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.

A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.

One worthwhile task carried to a successful conclusion is worth half-a-hundred half-finished tasks.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.

The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work.

For great and low there's but one test: 'Tis that each man do his best.