Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

All wealth is the product of labor.

Never tell all you know-not even to the person you know best.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

To succeed in your mission, you must have single-minded devotion to your goal.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.

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.