Choose your life or life will do it for you.

Our life does not develop as a result of chance, but as a result of causes.

It is your decisions, and not your conditions, that determine your destiny.

More is lost by indecision than wrong decision.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.

If you haven't the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.

Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try.

It is the responsibility of leadership to work intelligently with what is given, and not to waste time fantasizing about a world of flawless people and perfect choices.

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

If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.

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.

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.

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 there is anything in the world a person should fight for, it is freedom to pursue his ideal, because in that is his great opportunity for self-expression, for the unfoldment of the greatest thing possible to him.

A very little key will open a very heavy door.

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

Change, But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.

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

Beauty perishes in life, but is immortal in art.

Reality doesn't go away when it is ignored.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.

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?

To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given a chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy.

There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.

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

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.

This is the law: The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. The sword is more important than the shield and skill is more important than either. The final weapon is the brain. All else is supplemental.

Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than one with all the facts.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

Never cross a man, not afraid to die.

The higher you soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. The proceed to improve on the worst.