James Chaney

"The mind is everything. What you think, you become."

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

"As a man thinks, so he is."

"All that we are is the result of what we have thought."

"The greatest wealth is health."

"Character is like a tree and reputation is like its shadow."

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

"The best revenge is massive success."

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends."

"The question is not whether we can afford to invest in our children, but whether we can afford not to."

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."

"Life is ten percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you react to it."

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul."

"Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting."

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

"You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with."

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."

"The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die."

"Not all of us can do great things, but we can do small things with great love."

"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve."

"The man who has confidence in himself is the man who can change the world."