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

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.

The results you achieve will be in direct proportion to the effort you apply.

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses.

Whoever wants music instead of noise, joy instead of pleasure, soul instead of gold, creative work instead of business, passion instead of foolery, finds no home in this trivial world of ours.

Laugh as much as you breathe. Love as long as you live.

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

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

History is more or less bunk. It’s tradition. We don’t want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker’s damn is the history we made today.

Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today.

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

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