Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

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

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

The best way out is always through.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

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

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

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.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'