We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training.

When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.

Your mind is a battlefield—be its commander, not its soldier.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

You must forget about the past to think of your future.

Mankind is made of two kinds of people: wise people who know they're fools, and fools who think they are wise.

Pride builds high walls, but leaves you alone within them.

Loose lips sink big ships.

Better to be a warrior in a Garden, than to be a gardener in a war.

If you knew how quickly people forget the dead, you would stop living to impress people.

The greatest sin is to think yourself as weak.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Concentrate on a single goal, a single task, and beat it into submission.

Truth is not what you want it to be; it is what it is. And you must bend to its power or live a lie.

Life is like a long journey with a heavy burden. Do not rush.

If you are a friend of everybody, you are an enemy to yourself.

Difficulty is what wakes up the genius.

Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.

An idiot with a plan can beat a genius without a plan.

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.