When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.

Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.

Learn from both your mistakes and successes because if you learn only from your mistakes you will only learn more errors

It's always too early to quit.

Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.

Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything.

Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy doses to keep it going