Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.

In quietness the soul expands.

Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.

I was smart enough to go through any door that opened.

It is not a daily increase, but a daily decrease. Hack away at the inessentials.

I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

'Tis never too late to be wise.

Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.

Some people try to destroy you, precisely because they recognize your power.

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.