If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Differences are not intended to separate, to alienate. We are different precisely in order to realize our need of one another.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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