We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...
We need never be ashamed of our tears.
The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.
Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.
You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.
In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart.
You have to make the rules, not follow them.
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.
My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
The fact that the great scientist believed in flying machines was the one thing that encouraged us to begin our studies.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.
I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.