I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

The man with no imagination has no wings.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

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.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

We need never be ashamed of our tears.

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

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

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

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