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

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

You have to dream before your dreams can come true.

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life

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

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Why live an ordinary life, when you can live an extraordinary one.

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.