All wealth is the product of labor.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

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

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

Don't stop chasing your dreams, because dreams do come true.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

I am the captain of my soul.

The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it ....

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.