Do not regret growing older. It's a privilege denied to many.

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

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now. 

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. 

Things turn out best for people who make the best of the way things turn out. 

Yesterday's the past and tomorrow's the future. Today is a gift - which is why they call it the present. 

If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster. 

If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. 

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. 

Even God can't change the past. 

Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. 

If you have tried to do something and failed, you are vastly better off than if you had tried to do nothing and succeeded.