You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

We were a family who had come from nothing and now we had respect from French people of all sorts.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.

One man with courage is a majority.

Find out who you are and do it on purpose.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.

I may have had a lot of luck in my life, but I still need to find a challenge in the game.

How long should you try? Until.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

You shape your own destiny.

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

When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.

The great secret of true success, of true happiness, is this: the man or woman who asks for no return, the perfectly unselfish person, is the most successful.