If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.
We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
Go on with what your heart tells you, or you will lose all.
You shape your own destiny.
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.
Keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadow.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.
Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
