Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.

The starting point of all achievement is desire.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Every nation has the right to demand proper treatment and no country should violate the territory of any other country.

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

There is always room at the top.

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

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

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

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Don't complain about the snow on your neighbor's roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

They deem me mad because I will not sell my days for gold; and I deem them mad because they think my days have a price.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible.