A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

A lot of people have gone further than they thought they could because someone else thought they could

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

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

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

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.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

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