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

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

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

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

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

You have to work hard to get to the top of your game. I think every writer has doubts! I still do all the time.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If youre not, pretend you are.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

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

Perseverance is failing 19 times and succeeding the 20th.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.