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.
We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.
Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.
Only when I fall do I get up again.
One man with courage is a majority.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.
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.
Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
A pure hand needs no glove to cover it.
Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?