"To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden."
"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."
"Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions."
"Watch what you say, and whatever you say, practice it."
"When the world pushes you to your knees, you're in the perfect position to pray."
"Excuses are the lies you convince yourself are true to avoid proving you are worthy of the gift you were given."
"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."
"If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself."
"Work joyfully and peacefully, knowing that right thoughts and right efforts inevitably bring about right results."
"Life is not always a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well."
"The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think we work for anybody but ourselves."
"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it."
"Just get out and do it. You will be very, very glad that you did."
"All leaders are readers."
"Any game becomes important when you know and love the players."
"We're responsible for everything that happens to us."
"Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves."
"You can do two things at once, but you can't focus effectively on two things at once."
"You are today where your thoughts have brought you."
"Turn your wounds into wisdom."
"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable."
"Anyone who dreams of an uncommon life eventually discovers there is no choice but to seek an uncommon approach to living it."
"Be a master of change rather than a victim of change."
"Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises."
"It doesn't matter if the glass is half empty or half full. Be grateful you have a glass - you're the only person that can decide what's in it."
"Create each day anew."
"Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be."
"A zen master's life is one continuous mistake."
"Nothing is impossible. The word itself says 'I'm possible!'"
"Identify your problems, but give your power and energy to solutions."
"Freeing oneself from words is liberation."
"Life has more imagination than we carry in our dreams."
"The future is no more uncertain than the present."
"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
"Listening well is as powerful as talking well, and is also as essential to true conversation."
"Sometimes you put walls up not to keep people out, but to see who cares enough to break them down."
"Tradition is the illusion of permanence."
"Until you change how you get things done, you'll never know what works best."