The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

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

Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground.

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

Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

You'll never do a whole lot unless you're brave enough to try.

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I'm already better than them.

Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

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

No leader can be too far ahead of his followers.

Every problem is a gift - without problems we would not grow.

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

When they say the sky's the limit to me that's really true

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.

Cultivate your curves - they may be dangerous but they won't be avoided.