The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

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

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

A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.

What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being-we can do it.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts...

Too much sanity may be madness - and the maddest of all is to see life as it is and not as it should be.

When I'm inspired, I get excited because I can't wait to see what I'll come up with next.

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.