When you are tough on yourself, life is inevitably easy. When you are easy on yourself, life will be inevitably difficult.

Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.

Authors by the hundreds can tell you stories by the thousands of those rejection slips before they found a publisher who was willing to 'gamble' on an unknown.

Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost.

Positive thinking will let you use the abilities, training and experience you have.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

You can start where you are with what you've got and go wherever it is you want to go.