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

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

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

I believe that every person is born with talent.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

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.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

Let yourself be silently drawn by the stronger pull of what you really love.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

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

Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

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.

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