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

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

A lot of legends, a lot of people, have come before me. But this is my time.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

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

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

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

You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and to impoverish yourself if you forget the errand.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Pizza makes me think that anything is possible.

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

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

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

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

Storms make trees take deeper roots.

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

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.