We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

The best way out is always through.

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

Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

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

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job.

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.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

We're lost, but we're making good time

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.