To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.
When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.
Storms make trees take deeper roots.
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...
Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.
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.
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.
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.
Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.
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.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
