A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.

We could all take a lesson from crayons: some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, and all are different colors, but they still learn to live in the same box...

Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right.

You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.

Do not let it be your aim to be something, but to be someone.

You can't live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.

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.

Whatever lifts the corners of your mouth, trust that.

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

People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book.

Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick.

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired by glory.

I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

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

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

Our life is what our thoughts make it.

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.

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