The end result is the compilation of many previous contributions.

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.

We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.

Think lovingly, speak lovingly, act lovingly, and every need shall be supplied.

Instead of speaking saintly words we must act them.

There is no failure except in no longer trying.

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

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

We are our choices.

Man is free at the moment he wishes to be.

You cannot make progress without making decisions.

Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

You and only you are responsible for your life choices and decisions.

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given. Freedom is something people take, and people are as free as they want to be.

Pain is certain, suffering is optional.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease to exist at death.

The things are mighty few on earth That wishes can attain. Whate'er we want of any worth We've go to work to gain.

If you set goals and go after them with all the determination you can muster, your gifts will take you places that will amaze you.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find a better man.

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

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.

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

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.

All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.

Now is the time to open the doors of opportunity to all of God’s children.

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

View your life from your funeral: Looking back at your life experiences, what have you accomplished? What would you have wanted to accomplish but didn't? What were the happy moments? What were the sad? What would you do again, and what wouldn't you do?

The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.

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

The thought of only being a creature of the present and the past was troubling. I longed for a future, too, with hope in it. The desire to be free, awakened my determination to act, to think, and to speak.