Argue not concerning God,re-examine all that you have been told at church or school or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your soul

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

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

What I stand for is what I stand on.

Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft!

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

For me, I'm focused on what I want to do. I know what I need to do to be a champion, so I'm working on it.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

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

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Never stand begging for what one has the power to earn.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

Neither worse then or better is a thing made by being praised.

You're never as good as everyone tells you when you win, and you're never as bad as they say when you lose.