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.
When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.
I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.
The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...
Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.
Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.
We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.
I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion'.
Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.
Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.
Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.