However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you if you do not act on upon them?

I work hard, and I do good, and I'm going to enjoy myself. I'm not going to let you restrict me.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned

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.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune. And idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

A liar will not be believed even when he speaks the truth.

The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems.

The starting point of all achievement is desire. Keep this constantly in mind. Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire makes a small amount of heat.

Man needs his difficulties because they are necessary to enjoy success.

I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you’ve ever imagined.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well.

A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.