For imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.

It doesn't matter how many times you have failed.... What matters is the successful attempt.

Self-discipline is the golden key; without it, you cannot be happy.

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

Emptiness is a symptom that you are not living creatively.

Often the difference between a successful man and a failure is not one's better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on his ideas, to take a calculated risk — and to act.

We, whoever we are, must have a daily goal in our lives, no matter how small or great, to make that day mean something.