It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

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

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.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed. They never dare to try.

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

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

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

There is a candle in your heart, ready to be kindled. There is a void in your soul, ready to be filled. You feel it, don’t you?

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

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

People die from typewriters falling on their heads.

When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

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...

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.