Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

I am the captain of my soul.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Your talent determines what you can do. Your motivation determines how much you are willing to do. Your attitude determines how well you do it.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

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.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

Only when I fall do I get up again.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

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.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.