What one person can do, another will be able to do.

The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

To be granted some kind of usable talent and to be able to use it to the fullest extent of which you are capable—this, to me, is a kind of joy that is almost unequaled.

The question, 'Who ought to be boss?' is like asking 'Who ought to be the tenor in a quartet?' Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

Patience is not simply the ability to wait – it’s how we behave while we’re waiting.

The less you respond to negative people, the positive your life will become.

Never complain of that of which it is at all times in your power to rid yourself.

Do you feel gloomy? Lift your eyes. Stand on your feet. Say a few words of appreciation and love to the lord. Be positive.

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.

He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.

We should never permit ourselves to do anything that we are not willing to see our children do. We should set them an example that we wish them to imitate.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

We ought not to let either our joy at their faults or our grief at their success be idle, but in either case we ought to reflect, how we may become better than them by avoiding their errors, and by imitating their virtues not come short of them.

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.

I drink to make other people more interesting.

Anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, now that's the real test.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.