It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

Freedom and independence form my character.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

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.

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

Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion.

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

Know thyself.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

The greatest sin is to think yourself weak

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

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