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

Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours.

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.

Half-finished work generally proves to be labor lost.

We do not do what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are—that is a fact.

Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively.

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

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

Loosen up. Life is a lesson. Learn from it and progress on!

For what it’s worth: It’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really man it.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

There is nothing happens to any person but what was in his power to go through with.

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?