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

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

All thinking men are atheists.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

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.

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

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

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.

You got to get it while you can.

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

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

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

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.