A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

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.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

So early in my life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise.

We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.

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

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

United we stand; divided we fall.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

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

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

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

Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.