In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

If you want a thing done well, do it 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.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

Know thyself.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

There is always room at the top.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

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

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

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