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.
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.
A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.
Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.
I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.
Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.
What's the world's greatest lie?... It's this: that at a certain point in our lives, we lose control of what's happening to us, and our lives become controlled by fate.
Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.
Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.
To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.
I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.
All thinking men are atheists.
Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain
I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
What I stand for is what I stand on.
Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.
The unexamined life is not worth living.
He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life
I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.
The deeds you do may be the only sermon some persons will hear today.