Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.

Be happy, but never satisfied.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

You shape your own destiny.

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

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

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Wealth is not about having a lot of money; it's about having a lot of options.

In winter, I plot and plan. In spring, I move.

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.