We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Know thyself.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

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

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Everything you can imagine is real.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

When all is said and done, more is said than done.