He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher... or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.

Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men.

Aim for the highest.

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

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

Winners and losers aren't born, they are the products of how they think

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

In a day, when you don't come across any problems - you can be sure that you are travelling in a wrong path.

Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

Know thyself.

Don't let anyone tell you what you ought to like... Some wines that some experts think are absolutely exquisite don't appeal to me at all.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

The superior man thinks only of virtue; the common man thinks only of comfort.

Victory is for those who can say 'Victory is mine'. Success is for those who can begin saying 'I will succeed' and say 'I have succeeded' in the end.

When I give, I give myself.

For every man there exists a bait which he cannot resist swallowing.

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.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

I believe that every person is born with talent.