For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

Do not allow negative thoughts to enter your mind for they are the weeds that strangle confidence.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

The successful warrior is the average man, with laser-like focus.

In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature.

Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one.

In the middle of chaos lies opportunity.

I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet ‘paradise’. More important, I no longer fear ‘hell’.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.

As you think, so shall you become.

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you’ll never get it done.

There is “what is” only when there is no comparing and to live with “what is” is to be peaceful.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Real living is living for others.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

To hell with circumstances; I create opportunities.