Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

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

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

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.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

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.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.