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

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

The three things that are most essential to achievement are common sense, hard work and stick-to-it-iv-nes

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.