As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.

Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so you shall become. Your vision is the promise of what you shall one day be; your ideal is the prophecy of what you shall at last unveil.

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

Once you label me you negate me.

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.

Courage is grace under pressure.

In the intellectual order, the virtue of humility is nothing more nor less than the power of attention.

A good traveller has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!

Nothing is black or white.

Freedom lies in being bold.

I have noticed that nothing I have never said ever did me any harm.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

Pretty much, Apple and Dell are the only ones in this industry making money. They make it by being Wal-Mart. We make it by innovation.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Who are you to judge the life I live? I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you start pointing fingers... make sure your hands are clean!

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch.