First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

I love those who can smile in trouble...

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

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

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

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

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.