Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it.

If you don't know, the thing to do is not to get scared, but to learn.

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

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

The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.

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

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

When I give, I give myself.

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

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.