So often times it happens that we liev our lives in chains
And we never even know we have the key.

No longer forward nor behind
I look in hope and fear;
But grateful take the good I find,
The best of now and here.

Knowledge is no the same as wisdom.
-Yeah, what's the difference?
You know how to clean a windshield, right?
-Yeah.
Wisdom is doing it.

Be just, and fear not.
Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's,
Thy God's and truth's

Be your character what it will, it will be known, and nobody will take it upon your word.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

Nature and wisdom never are at strife.

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

I am I plus my surroundings and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

We live in a world of ever-depleting resources. Money is no longer the currency. Air, water and soil are the currencies for the future.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Let's not forget that the little emotions are the great captains of our lives and we obey them without realizing it.

The only way most people recognize their limits is by trespassing on them.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Reason should direct and appetite obey.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

The less you can live on, the more chance your idea will succeed. This is true even after you’ve 'made it'.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

I dwell in possibility...

There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.

Cynicism is not realistic and tough. It's unrealistic and kind of cowardly because it means you don't have to try.

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

The imagination exercises a powerful influence over every act of sense, thought, reason, over every idea.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's as simple as that.

The first step to becoming is to will it.

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

The secret to productive goal setting is in establishing clearly defined goals, writing them down and then focusing on them several times a day with words, pictures and emotions as if we've already achieved them.

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love to do, there is only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

There is one quality that one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.

I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently.

Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake.

All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes to make it possible.

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet. Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls.

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it.

It is not work that kills men, it is worry. Work is healthy; you can hardly put more on a man than he can bear. But worry is rust upon the blade. It is not movement that destroys the machinery, but friction.

Never let life's hardships disturb you ... no one can avoid problems, not even saints or sages.