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.

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

You got to get it while you can.

If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

One of the things I learned when I was negotiating was that until I changed myself, I could not change others.

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

We must have perserverence and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

You shape your own destiny.

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

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.

Ideas come from everything

Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't - you're right.

The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.

I don't know who my grandfather was; I'm much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.

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

Everything you can imagine is real.

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

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.