It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

If you get up in the morning and think the future is going to be better, it is a bright day. Otherwise, it's not.

I will take fate by the throat; it will never bend me completely to its will.

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.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. … Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles.

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Go then if you must, but remember, no matter how foolish your deeds, those who love you will love you still.

Make today worth remembering.

I am the captain of my soul.

A man can't soar too high, when he flies with his own wings.

You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?

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

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

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

If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.