Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.

One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.

Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life!

I will spend my heaven doing good on earth.

You have to have a patience for exercise. You have to have a patience for college. You have to have a patience for relationships. Once the momentum gets going it takes on a life all of its own.

Courage changes things for the better...With courage you can stay with something long enough to succeed at it, realizing that it usually takes two, three or four times as long to succeed as you thought or hoped.

Everything that's really worthwhile in life comes to us.

Never give up on a dream because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.

everything comes if a man would only wait. I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose, must accomplish it and that nothing can resist a will that will stake even existence for its fulfillment".

Luck is what happens when preparedness meets opportunity, and opportunity is there all the time.

All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing.

The only thing needed for evil to prosper is for good men to do nothing.