I will act now. Success will not wait. If I delay, success will become wed to another and lost to me forever. This is the time. This is the place. I am the person.

Practice the art of patience for nature never acts in haste.

I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

Opportunities, many times, are so small that we glimpse them not and yet they are often the seeds of great enterprises. Opportunities are also everywhere and so you must always let your hook be hanging. When you least expect it, a great fish will swim by.

I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?

All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?

If I must be a slave to habit let me be a slave to good habits.