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

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Winning isn't everything but wanting to win is.

Humans have come into being for the sake of each other, so either teach them, or learn to bear them.

You lose nothing when fighting for a cause ... In my mind the losers are those who don't have a cause they care about.

The best way out is always through.

Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet.

You say I started out with practically nothing, but that isn't correct. We all start with all there is, it's how we use it that makes things possible.

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

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.

I'm sorry I wrote you such a long letter; I didn't have time to write a short one.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

It is better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.

The men who have succeeded are men who have chosen one line and stuck to it.

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

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

The person who takes no chances generally has to take whatever is left when others are through choosing.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.