Why be an average person? All the great achievements of history have been made by strong individuals who refused to consult statistics or to listen to those who could prove convincingly that what they wanted to do, and in fact ultimately did do, was completely impossible.

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. Don't go through life, grow through life.

While many people are trying to be in tune with infinite, what they really are is in tune with the indefinite.

The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.

There is only one way in which you can "change your luck" and that is by altering your thoughts.

The one thing that a fish can never find is water; and the one thing that man can never find is God.

Happy relationships depend not on finding the right person, but on being the right person.