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.

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.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

It may have been in pieces, but I gave you the best of me.

It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

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.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Every intention is a trigger for transformation.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

I don’t think we are going to become extinct. We are very clever and very resourceful.

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.