Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off of the goal

If you’ll not settle for anything less than your best, you will be amazed at what you can accomplish in your lives

Why is it parents think they help their kids by pretending things are better than they are?

Life is an affair of people not of places

The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness

To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears

One always needs readjustment in his life at some or the other time.

In baseball, as in life, the true measure of a person is how they handle adversity

I think I was a singer before I came out of the womb. I also think that the way you live your life, and the choices you make parallel what doors open up for you.

Oh Tigger, where are your manners?” “I don’t know, but I bet they’re having more fun than I am.

You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.

It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready.

If you know the why, you can live any how.

Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.

The meaning of life is that it stops.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

There is a mysterious cycle in human events. To some generations, much is given. Of other generations, much is expected. This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.

I’m not a jack of all trades; I’m a master of many. I don’t feel there is anything I can’t do if I want to

He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

I’ve made mistakes I could have treated you better I let you get away There goes my happily ever after

Your ability to set goals is the master skill of success. Goals unlock your mental powers, release your energies, and lift your life onto a higher plane.

Why lie? I’m not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

The reward of faith is that you shall have everlasting life.

I don’t work, I live… I don’t have a job, I just have a life.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

The cure for poverty has a name, in fact: it’s called the empowerment of women. If you give women some control over the rate at which they reproduce, if you give them some say, take them off the animal cycle of reproduction to which nature and some doctrine—religious doctrine condemns them, and then if you throw in a handful of seeds perhaps and some credit, the floor of everything in that village, not just poverty, but education, health, and optimism will increase. It doesn’t matter; try and do it without empowering women, you can’t do it. The benefits are so many.

Every lizard lies on its belly, so we cannot tell which has a belly-ache

Ask no questions, and you’ll be told no lies.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.