Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it.

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

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

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

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

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.

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

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

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

Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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

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