What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

Surround yourself only with people who are going to take you higher.

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

The unexamined life is not worth living.

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

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

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

People should pursue what they're passionate about. That will make them happier than pretty much anything else.

If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.

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

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

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

People are capable, at any time in their lives, of doing what they dream of.

One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.

Ideas come from everything

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

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.

We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, handsome, talented and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?