Give yourself something to work toward - constantly.

Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

If my life is going to mean anything, I have to live it myself.

I will never be by violence constrained to do anything.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

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

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.

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.

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

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

How long should you try? Until.

I dream my painting and I paint my dream.

It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.

If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.

A sudden dart when a little over a hundred feet from the end of the track, or a little over 120 feet from the point at which it rose into the air, ended the flight.

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.

First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.