“The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it.”

“You must dare to do the thing you think cannot be done... as this is the only way to discover that there's nothing you can't do.”

“Once you know what it means to choose in favor of yourself, there is no power in the universe that can make you choose against yourself.”

“The past is as powerless to darken the present moment as is a shadow to reach up and drag down the form that casts it.”

“The Only Power You Need to Be Free of Troublesome PeopleSince what other people do to you is not in your power to change, you need only concern yourself with what you do to yourself, for that is in your power”

“I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race.”

“Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged.”

“The only time I really become discouraged is when I think of all the things I would like to do and the little time I have in which to do them.”