I am fundamentally an optimist. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long range risks and costs of comfortable inaction.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take for better, for worse, as his portion; that, though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given to him to till.

Nothing exists from whose nature some effect does not follow.

The obstacle in the path becomes that path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

If you want the rainbow, you've got to put up with the rain.

An optimist may see a light where there is none, but why must the pessimist always run to blow it out?

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

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

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.

When you are enthusiastic about what you do, you feel this positive energy. It’s very simple.

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