When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Don't wish it were easier, wish you were better.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

People throw stones at you and you convert them into milestones.

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.

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

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

You'll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.

First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.

When every physical and mental resource is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

How wrong is it for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself?

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.