They tried to bury us. They didn't know we were seeds.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

Plans will get you into things, but you have got to work your way out.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

Old age is no place for sissies.

Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.

Whenever sorrow comes, be kind to it. For God has placed a pearl in sorrow’s hand.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?

Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.

You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though sometimes it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that setbacks and griefs which endure help us in our march forward.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

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.

Do not seek to bring things to pass in accordance with your wishes, but wish for them as they are, and you will find them.

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Don’t be ‘a writer’. Be writing.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money but him who does it for love of it.