A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

As long as I'm in great shape, nobody beats me, for sure.

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

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

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

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.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

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

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.