And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

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

Find out who you are. And do it on purpose.

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

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.

It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

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

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

You are never too old to become younger!

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.