We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.
This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.
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.
I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
Champions aren't made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a desire, a dream, a vision.
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.
It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.
Listen to many, speak to a few.
Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?
If the little bit you have is nothing special in itself, at least find a way of saying it that is a little bit special.
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.
I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.
