You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

Only in the darkness, you are able to see the stars.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

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

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

Make today worth remembering.

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

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy - I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

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

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.