Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

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

I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

The time is always right to do the right thing

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

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

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

You shape your own destiny.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

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.