You must be shapeless, formless, like water.

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

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schooling to get adapted to my kind of fooling.

The best people possess a feeling for beauty, the courage to take risks, the discipline to tell the truth, the capacity for sacrifice. Ironically, their virtues make them vulnerable; they are often wounded, sometimes destroyed.

Self-respect leads to self-discipline. When you have both firmly under your belt, that's real power.

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself; that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth; people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in the finite mind of the eternal act of creation in the infinite I am.

I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn’t give this game of life everything he’s got.

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

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.

All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems.

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.

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

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.

If you feel pain, you're alive. If you feel other people's pain, you're a human being.

The day you stop caring what other people think of you, is the day your life begins.

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.

We always like those who admire us; we do not always like those whom we admire.

The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its own storms, it has its tides, and in its depths, it has its pearls too.

Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are.

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.