I am the captain of my soul.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

The best way out is always through.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

It's always too early to quit.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role.

I think nature's imagination Is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.