Better three hours too soon than a minute too late.

Obstacles are like wild animals. They are cowards but they will bluff you if they can. If they see you are afraid of them, they are liable to spring upon you; but if you look them squarely in the eye, they will sink out of sight.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

I've had a lot of worries in my life, most of which never happened.

Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.

Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

To change your mind and to follow him who sets you straight is to be nonetheless the free agent that you were before.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

He who blames others has a long way to go on his journey. He who blames himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.

It's a rare gift, you know, to feel reverence for your own life and to want the best, the greatest, the highest possible, here, now, for your very own.

Leaders must understand that some people will inevitably sell out to the evil side. Don't waste your time wondering why; spend your time discovering who.

Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it.

I think it’s important to realize that you can miss something, but not want it back.

Life admits not of delays; when pleasure can be had, it is fit to catch it. Every hour takes away part of the things that please us, and perhaps part of our disposition to be pleased.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.

It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.

I have arrived. I am home in the here, in the now. I am solid. I am free. In the ultimate I dwell.