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

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

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.

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

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

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

I do not want to die rusting, I prefer to burn out.

It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.

The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present.

All wealth is the product of labor.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Accept whatever comes to you woven in the pattern of your destiny, for what could more aptly fit your needs?

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

All thinking men are atheists.

There are no traffic jams on the extra mile.

You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

You are never too old to become younger!

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.