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.
The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.
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.
Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.
Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.
I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.
Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.
When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
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.
Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.