Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering

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

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

To attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.

A man should look for what is, and not what he thinks should be.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

For every dark night, there's a brighter day

Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.

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

The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

Everything you can imagine is real.

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.