I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

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

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

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

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

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

I am the captain of my soul.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.