In a word, each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.

Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all—the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

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

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

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?

There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the door.

Everything good is costly and the development of the personality is one of the most costly of all things. It will cost you your innocence, your illusions, your certainty.

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

The hardest thing to explain is the glaring evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

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

No all storms come to disrupt your life, some come to clear your path.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.

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

Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

The resources, advantages, and the powers of the American people are very great, and they have, consequently, succeed to equally great responsibilities.

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

If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time, or die by suicide.

I never encounter anything except my responsibility.

You are the only person who thinks in your mind. You are the power and authority in your world.

You cannot have a proud and chivalrous spirit if your conduct is mean and paltry; for whatever a man’s actions are, such must be his spirit.

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

It doesn't matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.

Before a man can accomplish anything of an enduring nature in the world, he must first of all acquire some measure of success in the management of his own mind.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.