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.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

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

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong.

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

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

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.