Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

All thinking men are atheists.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph, and there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

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

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.

Though the road's been rocky it sure feels good to me.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.