Doing your best today creates a better tomorrow.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.

Two of the hardest tests in life: The patience to wait for the right moment and the courage to accept whatever you encounter.

Unsuccessful people make decisions based on current situations. Successful people make decisions based on where they want to be.

Be happy with what you have while working for what you want.

Have regular hours for work & play; make each day both useful & pleasant and prove you understand the worth of time by employing it well.

I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

A person with a clear purpose will make progress on even the toughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress on even the smoothest road.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.

To a greater force, and to a better nature, you, free, are subject, and that creates the mind in you, which the heavens have not in their charge. Therefore if the present world go astray, the cause is in you, in you it is to be sought.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

How much time he gains who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only at what he does himself, to make it just and holy.

When I was a child, my mother said to me, "If you become a soldier you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.