“People fail forward to success.”

“When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.”

“A good goal is like a strenuous exercise — it makes you stretch.”

“It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.”

“Meaning doesn’t lie in things. Meaning lies in us. When we attach value to things that aren’t love – the money, the car, the house, the prestige – we are loving things that can’t love us back. We are searching for meaning in the meaningless. Money, of itself, means nothing. Material things, of themselves, mean nothing. It’s not that they’re bad. It’s that they’re nothing. (“A Return to Love”)”

“You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.”

“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world… as in being able to remake ourselves.”

“Far away there 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.”

“Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.”

“There are two things to aim at in life: first to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.”