Duty does not require any person to submit to the destruction of his personal ambitions and the right to live his own life in his own way.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.

Be yourself, let you come through.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

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.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.

Freedom and independence form my character.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I am possible'

Only when I fall do I get up again.