When all is said and done, more is said than done.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.

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

To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

Human dignity consists in the role we must play in our own perfection. Taking a role in our own self-completion is the highest expression of our creativity.

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

Life is 10 percent what happens to you and ninety percent how you respond to it.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

To give real service, you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money.

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

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water.

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

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

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

They alone live, who live for others.

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.