Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

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

The number one problem that keeps people from winning in the United States today is lack of belief in themselves.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.

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 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.

The greatest accomplishment is not in never falling, but in rising again after you fall.

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

Be yourself, let you come through.

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.

I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.

Failure is not our only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

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

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.