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

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

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

Everything you can imagine is real.

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble

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

You're off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So... get on your way!

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

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 real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.