There is no hope of success for the person who does not have a central purpose, or definite goal at which to aim.

It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.

You are the master of your destiny. You can influence, direct and control your own environment. You can make your life what you want it to be.

The imagination is too often regarded merely as an indefinite, untraceable, indescribable something that does nothing but create fiction.

The strongest oak of the forest is not the one that is protected from the storm and hidden from the sun. It’s the one that stands in the open where it is compelled to struggle for its existence against the winds and rains and the scorching sun.

Love is, without question life's greatest experience.

The only person to get even with are those who have helped you.