Change your thoughts and you change your world.

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

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

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.

I seldom end up where I wanted to go, but almost always end up where I need to be.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

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

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.