I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions. It's not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

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.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

Don't find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

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

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

Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

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

Gratitude is an illness suffered by dogs.

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

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think