When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...

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

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

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

He that can have patience can have what he will.

If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

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

The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.

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

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

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.