Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

The time is always right to do the right thing

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

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself. No man is free who cannot command himself.

I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act.

I don't care what people think or say about me, I know who I am.

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

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

However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.

Crave for a thing, you will get it. Renounce the craving, the object will follow you by itself.

Climbing to the top demands strength, whether it is to the top of Mount Everest or to the top of your career.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

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...

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

My optimism wears heavy boots and is loud.

Above all things, respect yourself.