Whatever you are, be a good one.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

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.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not.

There is always room at the top.

I don't do fashion, I AM fashion.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

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

If I find 10,000 ways something won't work, I haven't failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

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