Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

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

Some people regard discipline as a chore. For me, it is a kind of order that sets me free to fly.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.

Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind.

I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.

The people who were trying to make this world worse are not taking the day off. Why should I?

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

Don?t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets, for it and knowledge can raise men to the divine.

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

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

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

The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.

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.

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

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

We travel. Some of us forever. To seek other states, other lives, other souls.

I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention ... arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself trouble.

Know thyself.