If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

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

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.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Believe you can and you're halfway there.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

If you put off everything till you're sure of it, you'll never get anything done.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

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.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

It's always too early to quit.