Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

They alone live, who live for others.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

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

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

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

When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Know thyself.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

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

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

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.

You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.