What does not destroy me, makes me strong.

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

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it.

You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.

If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it - then I can achieve it.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Drink moderately, for drunkenness neither keeps a secret nor observes a promise.

We are citizens of the world. The tragedy of our times is that we do not know this.

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

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

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.

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